People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.
Billy CorganTo re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
Billy CorganNow the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.
Billy Corgan