Billy Corgan quote: "What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere -- to a happy place."

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.
BILLY CORGAN

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and...
BILLY CORGAN

You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zepp...
BILLY CORGAN

A lot of great music got easily dismissed because the baby boomers threw their weight around and we ...
BILLY CORGAN

For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done alright.
BILLY CORGAN

The band is basically modeled upon what we call like a Beatles ideal, which is that the band is abou...
BILLY CORGAN

For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to b...
BILLY CORGAN

Well, what we usually do is in every city we got to, we hire a fifteen-year-old boy and we turn it u...
BILLY CORGAN

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
BILLY CORGAN

I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
BILLY CORGAN

By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and lea...
BILLY CORGAN

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serv...
BILLY CORGAN

I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I...
BILLY CORGAN

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the ...
BILLY CORGAN

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attai...
BILLY CORGAN

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. I...
BILLY CORGAN

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to...
BILLY CORGAN

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.
BILLY CORGAN

Despite all my rage
I am still just a rat in the cage.
BILLY CORGAN

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to fin...
BILLY CORGAN

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You ...
BILLY CORGAN

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through ...
BILLY CORGAN

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.
BILLY CORGAN

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
BILLY CORGAN

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty f...
BILLY CORGAN

I had such a big mouth for so long that it doesn't faze anybody anymore.
BILLY CORGAN

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?
BILLY CORGAN

If I worried about appearances, I wouldn't be at Cubs games.
BILLY CORGAN

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.
BILLY CORGAN

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in...
BILLY CORGAN

The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the ...
BILLY CORGAN

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.
BILLY CORGAN

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don&...
BILLY CORGAN

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
BILLY CORGAN

Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the co...
BILLY CORGAN

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The W...
BILLY CORGAN

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
BILLY CORGAN

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame th...
BILLY CORGAN

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
BILLY CORGAN

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
BILLY CORGAN

Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, eithe...
BILLY CORGAN

It's my role as an artist to basically destroy the obvious and recreate the obvious, to put it back ...
BILLY CORGAN

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and ...
BILLY CORGAN

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sa...
BILLY CORGAN

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when tho...
BILLY CORGAN

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and wheth...
BILLY CORGAN

I don't mean this in any sort of trite way, ... but the music has really been the thing that has hea...
BILLY CORGAN

[According to reports from Australia, one fan shouted from the stage] play some Pumpkins ... Can I l...
BILLY CORGAN

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.
BILLY CORGAN

Are you all ready to have a rockin' mashed potato time?
BILLY CORGAN

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
BILLY CORGAN

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a w...
BILLY CORGAN

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be u...
BILLY CORGAN

I'm a really honest person.
BILLY CORGAN

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playi...
BILLY CORGAN

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral ...
BILLY CORGAN

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
BILLY CORGAN

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
BILLY CORGAN

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that w...
BILLY CORGAN

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a pr...
BILLY CORGAN

All I can go on is my own value system.
BILLY CORGAN

We've turned into a whining society.
BILLY CORGAN

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that befo...
BILLY CORGAN

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbol...
BILLY CORGAN

You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hu...
BILLY CORGAN

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
BILLY CORGAN

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the p...
BILLY CORGAN

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
BILLY CORGAN

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.
BILLY CORGAN

Most great records really start with the drums.
BILLY CORGAN

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threa...
BILLY CORGAN

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.
BILLY CORGAN

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.
BILLY CORGAN

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.
BILLY CORGAN

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake...
BILLY CORGAN

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.
BILLY CORGAN

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, n...
BILLY CORGAN

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music tha...
BILLY CORGAN

"Well, what we usually do is in every city we got to, we hire a fifteen-year-old boy and we turn it ...
BILLY CORGAN

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
BILLY CONNOLLY

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you ...
BILLY GRAHAM

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him i...
BILLY SUNDAY

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you...
BILLY WILDER

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
BILLY JOEL

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is...
BILLY GRAHAM

Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
BILLY CONNOLLY

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
BILLY CONNOLLY

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
BILLY GRAHAM

The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I wa...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audi...
BILLY CRYSTAL

When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand...
BILLY PORTER

Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and bro...
BILLY GIBBONS

Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ...
BILLY COLLINS

The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
BILLY BEANE

I'm not a bro.
BILLY EICHNER

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER

The best director is the one you don't see.
BILLY WILDER

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have righ...
BILLY WILDER

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
BILLY WILDER

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it...
BILLY WILDER

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
BILLY WILDER

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too serious...
BILLY WILDER

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
BILLY GRAHAM

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.
BILLY GRAHAM

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
BILLY GRAHAM

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about th...
BILLY GRAHAM

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
BILLY GRAHAM

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. B...
BILLY JOEL

I'm on all the apps: Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, Scruff. I have no shame about that.
BILLY EICHNER

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.
BILLY GRAHAM

I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight ...
BILLY PORTER

Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy...
BILLY GARDELL

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
BILLY CONNOLLY

Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for yo...
BILLY MAYS

Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.
BILLY BUSH

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instru...
BILLY SHEEHAN

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
BILLY WILDER

It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
BILLY WILDER

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Au...
BILLY WILDER

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDER

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means...
BILLY WILDER

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
BILLY WILDER

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDER

We're seeing this disintegration of the family movie into these blockbuster things that kids sho...
BILLY CRYSTAL

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
BILLY SUNDAY

The reason we are together is because she puts lead in my shoes and doesn't let me fly off the earth...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, 'This is the best I'm ever going...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Gentlemen, start your egos.
BILLY CRYSTAL

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the...
BILLY CRYSTAL

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your li...
BILLY CRYSTAL

I've seen worse. . . . It just so happens that your friend here is mostly dead. There's a big differ...
BILLY CRYSTAL

This guy was so large, he had his own climate.
BILLY CRYSTAL

Change is such hard work
BILLY CRYSTAL

The blues is life itself.
BILLY GIBBONS

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a ...
BILLY GIBBONS

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.
BILLY COLLINS

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
BILLY JOEL

If I need a cause for celebrationOr a comfort I can use to ease my mindI rely on my imaginationAnd I...
BILLY JOEL

[Does Joel feel a particular resonance with any of this year's other nominees? Sure, he says -- Paul...
BILLY JOEL

Shades of grey wherever I goThe more I find out the less that I knowBlack and white is how it should...
BILLY JOEL

I'm still dealing with the 21-year-old me. That idealist, that purist, that young, noble, and somewh...
BILLY JOEL

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - The sinners are much more fun
BILLY JOEL

Don't go trying some new fashionDon't change the color of your hair. . . .I could not love you any b...
BILLY JOEL

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
BILLY JOEL

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing ch...
BILLY JOEL

The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark lik...
BILLY HERMAN

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other ...
BILLY GRAHAM

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
BILLY WILDER

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER

I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as ...
BILLY WILDER

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster ...
BILLY ECKSTINE

I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It&#...
BILLY COLLINS

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER

Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplatin...
BILLY CRYSTAL

The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...
BILLY GRAHAM

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
BILLY WILDER

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
BILLY SUNDAY

I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
BILLY WEST

The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be ...
BILLY ZANE

The best things in life are free- and $19.95.
BILLY MAYS

He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
BILLY WILDER

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobi...
BILLY SUNDAY

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
BILLY GRAHAM

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are ...
BILLY JOEL

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
BILLY GIBBONS

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
BILLY JOEL

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER

I love it when someone insults me. That means I don't have to be nice anymore.
BILLY IDOL

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOEL

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
BILLY GRAHAM

America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we...
BILLY GRAHAM

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because ...
BILLY GRAHAM

No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross...
BILLY GRAHAM

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby ...
BILLY GRAHAM

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
BILLY GRAHAM

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselv...
BILLY COLLINS

Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.
BILLY MARTIN

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagi...
BILLY CONNELLY

America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's gr...
BILLY GRAHAM

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
BILLY GRAHAM

The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
BILLY JOEL

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
BILLY GRAHAM

God has a big eraser.
BILLY ZEOLI

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.
BILLY CRYSTAL

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
BILLY JOEL

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
BILLY ROSE

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
BILLY JOEL

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
BILLY GRAHAM

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they...
BILLY GRAHAM

What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere -- to a happy place.

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What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere -- to a happy place.

Billy Corgan

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