Billy Corgan

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

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock. ”

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status. ”

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice. ”

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook. ”

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it. ”

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore. ”

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity. ”

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did. ”

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