Billy Corgan Quotes

Create something for yourself that you feel proud of, that you are in control of, that gives you a better understanding of the type of artist you want to be.

I'm just going to keep trying to write music for me because that's what got me here.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first.

Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It's less about trying to prove something or get on somebody's list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That's not the case for me anymore.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

I'll remain an individual, and as long as I get excited about something, I'll do it.

I’m not trying to satisfy anybody but myself and the role that I’m playing.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

My life is my argument.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.