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

My mother came to a Smashing Pumpkins gig once, and I was wearing a dress. She was very upset. She said, 'Everyone's gonna think you're a fag.' I said,'Well, they already think I'm an asshole.'

When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.