Skip to content

I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.

— Billy Corgan

Another quote →

More quotes by Billy Corgan

Life is everything and nothing all at once.

This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.

I don't necessarily believe that the sting of failure is a bad thing. It gives you a certain amount of freedom to just say fuck it!

I’m trying to figure out how to take the instrument and have it still sound like a guitar, but put you in a different universe.

For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.

All Billy Corgan quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Billy Corgan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.