Billy Corgan > Quotes

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

“I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while 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”
― Billy Corgan

“Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.”
― Billy Corgan

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

“Intoxicated
With the madness
I'm in love with
My sadness
Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom
Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth”
― Billy Corgan

“I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.”
― Billy Corgan

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

“I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life”
― Billy Corgan

“Pink ribbon scars
That never forget
I've tried so hard
To cleanse these regrets
My angel wings
Were bruised and restrained
My belly stings”
― Billy Corgan

“I wanted more than life could ever grant”
― Billy Corgan

“I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what i choose is my choice
What's a boy supposed to do?
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love
I send this smile over to you”
― Billy Corgan

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

“That life can change, that we're not stuck in vain...”
― Billy Corgan

“In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.”
― Billy Corgan

“We'll crucify the insincere tonight”
― Billy Corgan

“In a dream
We are connected
Siamese twins
At the wrist”
― Billy Corgan

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