#kin

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

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#leave #never #plan #pumpkins #smashing

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 think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#days #i #i think #me #over

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#death #funeral #i #insanity #level

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#i #more #says #sick #than

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

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#before #did #doing #else #guitar

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#asking #concept #guard #like #live

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#great #kings #like #may #men