Soon you won't even have the choice to live or die as you wish! Billy Corgan More Quotes by Billy Corgan More Quotes From 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 recovery journey spiritual Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre. Billy Corgan great-music genre conception For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right. Billy Corgan voice feet hair Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing. Billy Corgan hair-metal tattoo guy Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love. Billy Corgan light real roots Been there, done that, seen it, heard it, pissed on it. Billy Corgan been-there-done-that done heard Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do. Billy Corgan artist answers world That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade. Billy Corgan interaction trade roots I usually wake up far after breakfast. That's as much as you're going to find out about my dietary requirements other than marijuana and vodka. Billy Corgan marijuana wake-up breakfast Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose Billy Corgan standards loses judging Why is it that all non-conformists look the same? Billy Corgan conformist non-conformist looks I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness. Billy Corgan fifteen twenties years Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature. Billy Corgan cat culture thinking There's something going on right now in America, where the American spirit or character is reasserting itself around liberty. I think it's an important time, and I'm trying to document that as an artist. If I just filter what I read through the media, if I just go through what I read through the media, I'm not really in touch with the world I grew up in. I know there's a gap there, I talk to my relatives, I talk to people I meet traveling around, and their mind is on something completely different. Billy Corgan artist character thinking The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock. Billy Corgan heart funny people I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time. Billy Corgan my-time thinking Most great records really start with the drums. Billy Corgan records Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds. Billy Corgan floating here-i-am two Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that. Billy Corgan good-things sometimes people I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in conceptual ideas of the future, but if you don't know the source of the thinking, [it] wouldn't make any sense. Billy Corgan past ideas thinking
