Billy Corgan Quotes

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.

The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.

I always seek one quality in my friends - that they should be genuine.

I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.

I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.

Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.

My fans know me and love me the way I am. I don't want to lie to my fans.

I do not think that I am a person who cannot be trusted.

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

It's important for someone like me - who's known Obama for 20 years - to speak the truth. I know him to be a Christian man. I know him to be one of the greatest patriots.

Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.