I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.
From Billy Corgan
Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.
I want people to see me happy.
I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.
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.
A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.
You're in a band 24 hours a day.
My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.
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