I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.
Billy CorganI'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
Billy CorganI was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.
Billy CorganI don't like that the government is going to manipulate the information to try to convince me that what I'm eating is not what I'm really eating. If people choose to eat cardboard because it's ten cents cheaper, then let them. That's at the root of freedom. But in the reverse, I'd like to know if what I'm eating or consuming or buying is somehow hurting or exploiting someone in another part of the planet.
Billy Corgan