"After Zwan, there was no question I was going to be a solo artist. The Pumpkins exist in my mind as a living entity that is a huge part of my life. As far as I'm concerned, the band's not broken up. The world got the body, but to me, the band lives on." - Billy Corgan
"As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field." - Billy Corgan
"For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating." - Billy Corgan
"How about playing songs by Chicago artists! Every city I go to plays ongs by their local artists. The theme song for the Boston Red Xox is Dirty Water, a song by the '60's group The Standells about the River Charles." - Billy Corgan
"I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe." - Billy Corgan
"I could not take the brunt of standing in the light of my own work. There was a Faustian bargain I could not make. I could have you mock me for wearing funny clothes, that I could deal with. But I couldn't deal with actually standing in the light of my own musical power." - Billy Corgan
"I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time." - Billy Corgan
"I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done." - Billy Corgan
"I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version." - Billy Corgan
"I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself." - Billy Corgan
"I find the Sox haters lame, and once it goes beyond good-natured fun, have no use for it. Cubs fans that hate on the Sox strike me as insecure... now, hating on the Cardinals, that is an entirely different business!" - Billy Corgan
"I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity." - Billy Corgan
"I met with a lot of resistance when I wanted our newest album to be a double CD. Many people thought I was going to ruin the band by doing it." - Billy Corgan
"I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan." - Billy Corgan
"I think two great albums are Women and Children First and Fair Warning. Fair Warning is a really mean, dark album." - Billy Corgan
"I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28." - Billy Corgan
"I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized." - Billy Corgan
"I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light." - Billy Corgan
"I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry." - Billy Corgan
"I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing." - Billy Corgan
"I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over." - Billy Corgan
"I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car." - Billy Corgan
"I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps." - Billy Corgan
"I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God." - Billy Corgan
"If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear." - Billy Corgan
"In my Saturn Return period, my mom died and I got a divorce. Mine occurred at the absolute peak of my career. Smashing Pumpkins were running around playing 200 concerts a year-making money, lotta babes-and there was the irony of the high with the low." - Billy Corgan
"In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else." - Billy Corgan
"It just doesn't work without the others." - Billy Corgan
"James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub." - Billy Corgan
"My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll." - Billy Corgan
"My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses." - Billy Corgan
"Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position." - Billy Corgan
"The core of a band should be built on the relationship between the guitarist and the drummer. It's the simpatico relationship between me and our drummer, Jimmy Chamberlain, that provides the foundation for the Pumpkins. Drums can do so much more than just hold down the groove." - Billy Corgan
"The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be." - Billy Corgan
"The only transformative difference between the first and the second album was that after the first album, I became completely suicidal. It was an eight-month depression, give or take a month, and I was pretty suicidal for about two or three months." - Billy Corgan
"There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got." - Billy Corgan
"You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way." - Billy Corgan
"Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature." - Billy Corgan
