Billy Corgan

I don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it.' ”

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. ”

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you. ”

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

You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship. ”

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile 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. ”

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. ”

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 our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons. ”

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in. ”