Billy Corgan

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

I'm not interested in pop art.

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

Most great records really start with the drums.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

I like my home and I like the nature.

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

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

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

I want people to see me happy.

I'm a green-tea guy.

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

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