When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.
Billy CorganIn a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
Billy CorganWell, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.
Billy CorganSomewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
Billy CorganI created a paradigm by which I could succeed, and up until recently it was the only way I could do it. 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. That's the difference now. It's like, okay, no more of that, you're done.
Billy Corgan