Quote

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

Billy Corgan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Billy Burke
Corgan
Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
Left
Latent
Mother
Issue
Didn
Childhood
Done
Losing
Real
Grow
Like
Issues
Sort
Grows
Unresolved

More quotes by Billy Corgan

Image
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 Corgan
Image
If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.
Billy Corgan
Image
I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.
Billy Corgan
Image
You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.
Billy Corgan
Image
For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.
Billy Corgan
Image
Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
Billy Corgan
Image
I work differently than most people.
Billy Corgan
Image
To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
Billy Corgan
Image
In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path.
Billy Corgan
Image
It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance.
Billy Corgan
Image
Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.
Billy Corgan
Image
The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves.
Billy Corgan
Image
Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
Billy Corgan
Image
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.
Billy Corgan
Image
I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.
Billy Corgan
Image
I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.
Billy Corgan
Image
I want to make great songs.
Billy Corgan
Image
As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the horizon. The idea is that you're willing to get up and keep moving toward that light.
Billy Corgan
Image
I 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 Corgan
Image
I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.
Billy Corgan