The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets. - Billy Corgan

I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out.

I’m trying to figure out how to take the instrument and have it still sound like a guitar, but put you in a different universe.

The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.