Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.
Billy CorganI've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness.
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 CorganWhat bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage.
Billy Corgan