I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.
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 CorganThe Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
Billy CorganI have a musical ancestry as much as I have a family ancestry. Honoring those ancestors gives you access to a greater source of appreciation and information than you would have if you were just going on your own ego system.
Billy Corgan