Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.- Billy Corgan
You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.
There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.
The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I am discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that is a good place to be.
Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I am not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.
My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
James, that is a bad situation. I am not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I am concerned, he was playing down at the pub.
It just doesn't work without the others.
In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.
If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
I have always been spiritual but I have never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.
I am viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.
I am sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.
I am definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.
