Corgan: "Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness."

Corgan: "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."

Corgan: "We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time."

Corgan: "The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on."

Corgan: "There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic."

Corgan: "I think I'm an artistic radical, and I think I'll be recognized as one. I'm a really good musician and a songwriter, but I think my real legacy will be as a radical."

Corgan: "I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass."

Corgan: "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."

Corgan: "I'm a really honest person."

Corgan: "The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills."

Corgan: "I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear."

Corgan: "I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there."

Corgan: "Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection."

Corgan: "More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them."

Corgan: "I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in."

Corgan: "I've always been spiritual but I've 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."

Corgan: "One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication."

Corgan: "I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around."

Corgan: "Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left."

Corgan: "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."

Corgan: "What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for."

Corgan: "I don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it.'"

Corgan: "Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do."

Corgan: "I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business."

Corgan: "I tend to be reactionary."

Corgan: "I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture."

Corgan: "I want people to see me happy."

Corgan: "Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight."

Corgan: "People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular."

Corgan: "I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore."

Corgan: "In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons."

Corgan: "My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm 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."

Corgan: "Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds."

Corgan: "I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity."

Corgan: "I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan."

Corgan: "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."

Corgan: "The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me."

Corgan: "The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be."

Corgan: "The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock."

Corgan: "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."

Corgan: "If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear."