Billy Corgan Quotations | Page 3

We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band.

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

Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song 'Cow.'

I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.

We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

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

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.

I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.

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

Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.