If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to 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 CorganI'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.
Billy Corgan