#ai

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

#call #christian #easier #focus #god

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

#easy #embrace #get #good #guy

I don't want to be 25 again. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#i #want

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

— Billy Corgan

#always #cobain #embodiment #great #guitar

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#attain #could #i #idealism #kind

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#am #between #floating #here #i

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#good #guitar #guitar player #guitar playing #high

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#american #ashes #awakening #cycle #death

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#noble #treachery #tyranny

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#bad-reviews #boring #complain #literary-criticism #lotr