Billy Corgan Quotes

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.

I wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.

I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

I wouldn't want to be 20 again for anything.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

I do not want to be young again.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

I used to love getting older.

I'm going to be 75 in May. How can I have lived this long and not know anything?

The older you get, the better you realize you were.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

There's been a lot of really cool stuff that's happened to me throughout my career, and I remember everything, but I don't think I savored every moment of it like I should have or like I do now.