Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.
Billy CorganWhat most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
Billy CorganI think it would be very interesting to see that many people would probably be okay with paying more for services and goods that they felt were more holistically [generated]. Which means the death of the old system which rewarded people for taking advantage of one another.
Billy CorganA good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
Billy CorganI hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one.
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