BILLY CORGAN

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

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

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

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

I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

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.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

I'm a bit weird.

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

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

Music is your guide.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

Most great records really start with the drums.

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

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

If I worried about appearances, I wouldn't be at Cubs games.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.