Billy Corgan Quotes

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

I make the kind of music I like.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself.

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

I'm only worried about what I'm doing or how I present music. I just try to do things I want to listen to, and I think that's what everybody else is try doing, too.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.

I would never tell someone else how to use their platform, because I think I'm much more comfortable allowing the work that I do to speak for itself.

If I'm going to put my image into something, I'll put my image into something that I actually feel like I'd like to do.

I'm gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they're gonna like. It doesn't really matter.

You know you have made it as an artist when you have the power to say no.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

I want to release music that I like and feel comfortable with.