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

- Billy Corgan

I think I'm an artistic radical, and I think I'll be recognized as one. I'm a really good musician and a songwriter, but I think my real legacy will be as a radical.

- Billy Corgan

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.

- Billy Corgan

Most great records really start with the drums.

- Billy Corgan

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

- Billy Corgan

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

- Billy Corgan

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

- Billy Corgan

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

- Billy Corgan

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

- Billy Corgan

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

- Billy Corgan

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

- Billy Corgan

If I worried about appearances, I wouldn't be at Cubs games.

- Billy Corgan

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

- 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

You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any money, so they see social media as the free marketing... So... 'Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that'll market the record.'

- Billy Corgan

The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.

- Billy Corgan

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

- Billy Corgan

We've turned into a whining society.

- Billy Corgan

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

- Billy Corgan

I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.

- Billy Corgan