Billy Corgan Long Quotations

You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.

There's been someone up here screaming 'Landslide' for the whole show... Normally we don't play 'Landslide,' but on occasion we've been known to play it... So since this person's been screaming it all show long... That just about kills the chances of me playing it tonight, or ever again.

Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.

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

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

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

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

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

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.