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That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade. — Billy Corgan

I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character. — Billy Corgan

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic — Billy Corgan

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years? — Billy Corgan

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe. — Billy Corgan

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been. — Billy Corgan

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth. — Billy Corgan

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me. — Billy Corgan

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem. — Billy Corgan

At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting. — Billy Corgan

Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that. — Billy Corgan

I've become a guy who's like a complaining, whining neurotic. — Billy Corgan

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything. — Billy Corgan

Beware of those angels with their wings glued on. — Billy Corgan

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did. — Billy Corgan

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants. — Billy Corgan

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status. — Billy Corgan

I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great guy. — Billy Corgan

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do. — Billy Corgan

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do. — Billy Corgan

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position. — Billy Corgan

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity. — Billy Corgan

You're in a band 24 hours a day. — Billy Corgan

Today is the greatest
Day I've ever known
Can't live for tomorrow,
Tomorrow's much too long ... — Billy Corgan

Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves. — Billy Corgan

Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock. — Billy Corgan

To me, it's the folly of man to make God human. — Billy Corgan

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it. — Billy Corgan

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t. — Billy Corgan

I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community! — Billy Corgan

It just doesn't work without the others. — Billy Corgan

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice? — Billy Corgan

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media. — Billy Corgan

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. — Billy Corgan

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers. — Billy Corgan

It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city. — Billy Corgan

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience. — Billy Corgan

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone. — Billy Corgan

Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands. — Billy Corgan

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose — Billy Corgan

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage. — Billy Corgan

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular. — Billy Corgan

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic. — Billy Corgan

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for. — Billy Corgan

For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right. — Billy Corgan

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player. — Billy Corgan

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people. — Billy Corgan

My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children. — Billy Corgan

I don't want to be 25 again. — Billy Corgan

We're the worst band in America ... That makes us the best. — Billy Corgan

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear. — Billy Corgan

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was. — Billy Corgan

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it. — Billy Corgan

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me. — Billy Corgan

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue. — Billy Corgan

Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job — Billy Corgan

I want people to see me happy. — Billy Corgan

I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over. — Billy Corgan

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre. — Billy Corgan

Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth. — Billy Corgan

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook. — Billy Corgan

I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much. — Billy Corgan

I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could. — Billy Corgan

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time. — Billy Corgan

The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present. — Billy Corgan

The Killer in me is the Killer in you. — Billy Corgan

People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it. — Billy Corgan

I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out. — Billy Corgan

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am. — Billy Corgan

I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one. — Billy Corgan

Live simply; make compassionate choices when it comes to food. — Billy Corgan

I tend to be reactionary. — Billy Corgan

I had such a big mouth for so long that it doesn't faze anybody anymore. — Billy Corgan

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence — Billy Corgan

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice. — Billy Corgan

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present. — Billy Corgan

I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour. — Billy Corgan

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am. — Billy Corgan

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck. — Billy Corgan

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death. — Billy Corgan

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why
there was just a presence between the four people or something. — Billy Corgan

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun. — Billy Corgan

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection. — Billy Corgan

I'm a bit weird. — Billy Corgan

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left. — Billy Corgan

Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one. — Billy Corgan

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music. — Billy Corgan

I don't want to be a dead hero. — Billy Corgan

I like my home and I like the nature. — Billy Corgan

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility. — Billy Corgan

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps. — Billy Corgan

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature. — Billy Corgan

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times. — Billy Corgan

I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine. — Billy Corgan

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear. — Billy Corgan

I've always believed that we could reach past genre
we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms. — Billy Corgan

Music is your guide. — Billy Corgan

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time. — Billy Corgan

This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world. — Billy Corgan

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work. — Billy Corgan