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I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character.
I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.
In my Corgan brain, I've decided it's almost as simple as 'All you need is love.' Almost.
A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.
If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.
I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.
Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.
At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.
Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long.
We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.
We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.
I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.
My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.
When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.
Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.
I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past.
I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.
One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.
In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.
I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.
In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.
You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.
If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.
I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us thru fear.
The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.
I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.
Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.
Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.
Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself.
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a God or Gods should pose no threat to you.
I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.
I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.
I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great guy.
A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.