Billy Corgan

I like my home and I like the nature.

You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

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

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

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

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

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

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

I'm not interested in pop art.