The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
Billy CorganEverybody likes to run around on their phones, including me, but we don't always want to hear who's sweating somewhere in some non-air-conditioned factory to create those things so that they can keep the prices down.
Billy CorganUsually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.
Billy Corgan