Billy Corgan

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem. ”

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

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again. ”

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death. ”

I think I'm an artistic radical, and I think I'll be recognized as one. I'm a really good musician and a songwriter, but I think my real legacy will be as a radical. ”

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else. ”

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now. ”

I work differently than most people. ”

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work. ”

It just doesn't work without the others. ”