Billy Quotes - Words from the Wise

"Give me a fucking kazoo and I will write you a good song"

"Life is everything and nothing all at once."

"Be nice to your friends, even if you don't like them"

"Don't judge yourself by other peoples standards. You'll always loose."

"I hate how in magazines, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one."

"We live in a plastic world and we are all plastic people And they want to put you in a plastic box And put you on a plastic shelf and say GO AWAY, GO AWAY, ROCK IS DEAD! But I am still here, so Fuck YOU!"

Interviewer: "You've lost all your hair, are you undergoing chemo therapy?" Billy: "Do you understand the words fuck off?"

"If there is a heaven, I see me getting there and getting yelled at. I see, like, the book, where they open it up and it's like: 'You've said this naughty word 9 million times'. And you're like 'No!' and they're like 'Yes, Yes, you did.'"

"Its a Backstreet Boy world, and at the end of the day, you just want to go home and kill yourself"

"Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre"

"Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school"

"You know something is off when there's crowd surfing during '1979'"

"You make me feel dirty...yeah you"

"If practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, then why practice?"

"You know where I got the title for "Mayonaise"? I looked in my refrigerator."

"I'm glad that I'm such a good rhymer, Better than being a social climber, Just because I'm a bit brighter, Than some fucking writer."

"I'll die someday, and it won't be mythical or magical, I'll just bite into a Twinkie and fall over!"

"Ten fucking years I've known this guy (James Iha), and I just want to drop kick his head."

"When I think of famous, I think of serial killers or politicians. I think being in a band is just an excuse to not work."

"Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color you're not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song 'Cow'."

"You wanna go to the circus, and to get in to the circus it costs you five pence. So you stand in line, but you dont have five pence, but you really wanna go to the circus. So someone comes along and says, 'Well, Ill take you into the circus and Ill pay the five pence. But you gotta pay me back later.' So they take you to the circus, they take you out. but, 'hey, when are you gonna pay me back?' 'Oh, Ill get around to it sooner or later.' Thats the story of the band."

"Beware of those angels with their wings glued on."

"You can't out-solo Jimi Hendrix and you can't out-god Led Zeppelin, and you can't out-pop, Iggy Pop."

"I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life."

"My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children."

"I know what it's like to be 15-years-old and live in white suburban America."

"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 your a fag.' I said,'Well, they already think I'm an asshole.'"

"It could have been any vegetable."

"It's The Smashing Pumpkins. That was my stupid idea."

"My role models were Judas Priest and Ozzy Ozbourne."

"...What people miss about Manson is that he is just reflecting, he's an artist, people want to focus that energy on him, but it's not really him, it's really about you. So for every guy sitting there with a beer and a .45 in his belt, Manson is just speaking to that end of society. He's speaking as an artist. He's not speaking as himself, and that's where people get really lost with Manson."

"You can stop throwing cups now. The joke is over."

"Most musicians suck."

"I'm looking forward to some kind of well-coordinated Floyd future, perhaps even a floating pig of our own."

"I'm about to take the stupid shirt off... but the band won't let me."

"Remember, Nagroc is Corgan spelt backwards. Don't you fucking forget that!"

"If you hear one of our songs on the radio and it's chopped up -- you call that radio sation, and tell them they're fucking stupid!"

"If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him."

"If I wasent a rockstar, Would I be in these silver pants?"

"I never liked me anyway."

"This friend of mine asked me 'Do you really mean it when you sing, "God is empty just like me"?, and 363 days out of the year, the answer is no. But those two days I feel it, I feel it pretty intensely."

"I've met kids who get laid at 10,12. I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18. Kids are acting grown-up, but they're not grown up inside."

"D'arcy is the moral conscience-it's really hard to do something if D'arcy thinks its fucked."

"My fans...they have to be young, and overweight, and they have to scream 'Billy...I love you Billy...Billy...!'"

"Have you ever seen my teeth? Have you ever really seen my teeth?"

"I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine."

"Music has basically followed a shallow route for 50 years. People come along, do something really cool and different, everyone copies them, the original gets diluted, distorted, and eventually the diluted - in most cases achieves more success than the thing that started it. And I kinda thought the alternative scene was gonna be different: We thought `Brave new world!' So it's really weird to be competing against the imitators. It wasn't always comfortable competing against Nirvana, and it was certainly not healthy living under that shadow at times. But at least there was honor in it. We always respected that it was a great band - Pearl Jam too. But competing against Bush?! It's nothing to get your dick hard about, you know what i mean? There's no mojo in that!"

"Me and my father have the same slouch and walk. I've been to family gatherings, after dinner, everyone goes into the living room, there will be eight people all sitting in the same Corgan way."

"I was a jock, but I wasn't on the sports team. I played guitar, but I didn't hang out with the stoners. I just couldn't hang in any way, and when you're young and you can't hang, you oppose. So I was anti-everything, fuck you all."

"I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because it was true. I put aside fear of Father being angry with me. It's hard though; the world pales in comparison with the stature of a parent. In some small-consolation way, my parents feel I'm helping people by giving them something to identify with. They feel proud in a sort of reverse way. My mom's proud of the fact that lots of kids look up to me."

"Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves."

"Music's pretty cool and I'm glad to be a part of it. Sometimes when you reach for the stars, you end up in the fucking shit. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in America. I don't believe in rock-and-roll. I believe in me."

"Well, when I was 20 and I met D'arcy, my whole thing was music, music, music, 24-7. And i couldn't understand why D'arcy wasn't music, music, music, 24-7. D'arcy was like, 'I have a fucking life. It can't be that way.'"

"I don't want to achieve the distance of a rock band that's too cool for you to deal with or too whacked out for you to relate to -- but the exact opposite... I want our music to come across like someone whispering into your ear and going right inside your brain. Instead of letting the sound go from our mouths and our hands through a thousand rock pretenses and Spinal Tap-isms, I want it to be like we're right in front of you. That's the kind of intimacy and trust I'd like the band to achieve."

"my view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than i am... like, i have a little brother who isn't retarded, but he has a very strange chromosomal disorder, so at some level i'm aware of the fact that i'm very fortunate. y'know, no matter what kind of personal demons i have, i still run it through some kind of equation that i'm lucky."

"i don't know if god would agree with me, but believing in god is kind of unimportant when compared to believing in yourself. because if you go with the idea that god gave you a mind and an ability to judge things, then he would want you to believe in yourself and not worry about believing in him. by believing in yourself you will come to the conclusion that will point to something..."