I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.
Billy Corgan
Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.
Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.
There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
I don't want to be a dead hero.
The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.
Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.
Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.
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.
My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.
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.
I'm a bit weird.
I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.
I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.
In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
We've turned into a whining society.
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.
I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.
It just doesn't work without the others.
Soon you won't even have the choice to live or die as you wish!
There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.
I like my home and I like the nature.
In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.
It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.
Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
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.
I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.
I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.
Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.
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.
You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.
If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.
I'm a really honest person.
Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.
You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
I think I'm an artistic radical, and I think I'll be recognized as one. I'm a really good musician and a songwriter, but I think my real legacy will be as a radical.
I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.
You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.
I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.
Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.
I still believe in my country.
