"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!"
"We've worked out a plan where eventually we'll replace ourselves with machines. So roughly by the year 2002 we'll sit at home and the machine will go on tour."
"Hey Hey Hey...You're right,"- Billy answering to a fan who said,"Hey Hey Hey...You're Billy Corgan!
"Stay in school- Lie to your teachers, but stay in school."- Billy to the fans at an sp concert.
"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."
"I'd probably be the guy your brother buys pot from or something."-Billy during an interview when asked what he'd be doing if he wasnt playing music.
"Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present."
"I fucking told you that this town sucks! Did I fucking TELL you this town sucks? I fucking TOLD you. I didn't want to play here, and now these fuckers want my fucking autograph!"- Billy in Tulsa '94.
"I'm about to take the stupid shirt off- but the band wont let me."- Billy referring to his famous ZERO shirt.
"It could've been any vegetable."- Billy on the origin of the name Smashing Pumpkins.
"The simplest way I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it."
"For a 6'3" guy with a whiney voice, I've done alright."
"Babyface is going to produce our next album."- Billy at the Grammy post show.
"At this point in time I actually don't know who I am."
"We are, we have been, and always will be the Smashing Pumpkins."
"Well, usually I wait until the end of the show to apologize for sucking, but I'd like to take this oppurtunity to say that we suck, so sorry. I guess what we need to do is play some Stone Temple Pilots or Bush."-Billy during a recent concert.
Just let me make this analogy: You want to go to the circus, and to get into the circus it costs you 5 pence. So, you stand on line and you don't have 5 pence, but you really want to go to the circus. So someone comes along and says,"Well I'll take you in the circus and I'll pay the 5 pence, but you gotta pay me back later." And you get taken to the circus, they take you out. "So when are you gonna pay me back?" "I don't know. I'll get around to it sooner or later." That's the story of the band."-Billy on Vieuphoria talking to the psychiatrist.
"Wow. That's it?!?! That's all we get? We won all these awards and that's all we get?!?! Beavis and Butthead got more time then us!"-Billy during an interview at the 1996 MTV Video Music Aards Post-Show.
"James: Good evening Oakland! Billy: James, we're not in Oakland. James: Good evening San Fransisco! Billy: We're not in San Fransisco either.(to the crowd)See, there is something many of you may not know about James. He's a robot, and when we're on tour, we kinda forgot to reprogram him sometimes so he gets confused easy. That's also why he smells so bad since we can't give him a shower."-Billy and James during a recent concert.
"Are you all ready to have a rockin mashed potato time?"-Billy during a recent concert
"I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one."
"You see all those empty seats? That's not who we play for-we play for you. I want you to remember, we won't forget you-so don't you forget about us."-Billy to the real fans who stayed till the end of a recent concert.
"I guess we should apologize now for making you all miss the super bowl. If it makes you feel any better, um, in the second quarter the players decided that they were all going to choose the path of non-violence and they all gave up football. So the game was suspended anyway so you're not missing anything."-Billy talking to fans at a concert on the same day as the Super Bowl.
"Are you ready to rock? Well, you came to the wrong place."-Billy to fans at a recent concert.
"Remember, Nagroc is Corgan spelt backwards. Don't you fucking forget that!"-Billy during a recent concert.
"I cut all my fucking hair off, thats what i did. It seems like a very obvious thing, but this idiot can't seem to see it,"-Billy during a concert after someone asked where his hair went.
I said rat in a cage, not monkey from a fucking wire,"-after seeing a guy hanging off the balcony after bullet with butterfly wings duing a concert.
"Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin."
"We are proud to be the first full services alternative rock band. What does that mean to you? You want service, we'll give it to you....If you want to hear an Oasis song, we'll play one."-Billy during a recent concert.
"My favorite are the people who sit down during the songs they don't like and stand up during the ones they do- those are my favorite people. Go ahead and sit down cause you're not gonna like this one so..If you're bored already, I would, I would just go. You've already heard most of the hits so...We'll keep trying though."-Billy during a recent concert.
"Alright, dancers...and you are dancers. Don't disappoint me or I will hurt you. James will now read you your rights...and a small disclaimer insuring the Smashing Pumpkins against any harm or injury should anyone fall."-Billy talking to the fans picked to dance on stage during 1979 at a recent concert.
"I put her in a box underneath my bed, but no matter how far I pushed her down I could still hear what she said. She says,'Bill, you're a whore and you always were. I told my momma I couldn't trust you. By the way, I hate you and I always did, I just did a good job of pretending'cause you see I had that job over at the mall and I didn't wanna lose it and shit. And I don't even like your first record!!! Superunknown.' And to all these things I reply,'Baby why?!?!?! Baby why?!?!?! Why must you make me cry? Why must the girls make the boys cry? It was an American tragedy. You broke my heart. Although I wasn't sure if I even had one, but you broke it nonetheless. Baby my Baby!!! Where are you now?!?!? Baby my Baby!!! Lost in the Clouds!!!"-Billy during one of his famous Silverfuck ramblings at a recent concert.
"Bar the door, lock up the children, the satanic monsters are back in town. So, our final farewell. Thank you, thank you. We appreciate everyone stickin' around 'til the bitter, bitter end. Drive home safely if you wanna visit us. James is in room 1505 and I'm in room 1507 so if you wanna stop by...So, we hope you had a good time. We are z Smashing Pumpkins."-Billy to the fans at a recent concert.
"Before Thanksgiving, the turkey on your tables was a happy, free turkey, who could think and do as he wished. Just think about that after you're done eating on Thanksgiving."-Billy talking to his fans during a concert around Thanksgiving.
"How cute. A big bird doll with a zero on his chest...I am against the...disgrace of innocent sesame street dolls...I was molested by big bird himself once....when I saw that thing flying at me, it brought back alot of painful memories...I can't tell you what he did to me...But, he does have that long beak..."-Billy reacting to when a fan threw a big bird stuffed animal at him during a concert.
"I was a jock, but I wasn't on the sports team. I played guitar, but I dodn'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."
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 our dick hard about, you know what I mean? There's no mojo in that!"
"Of course I heard it-it was like a fucking bomb went off!!! It was like an OJ Simpson thing. I thought maybe I should make a note when I heard it, in case somebody was murdered,"-Billy referring to the crash he heard above his hotel room, D'arcy's room, when the television crashed on her.
"Fan Question: Hi James. My friend says that you were or are a woman. But then I also read that you were dating D'arcy. So which one was true? Billy: He is a woman, and he was involved with D'arcy. James: I'm trying to do a lot of things these days."-Billy and James' humorous little answer to a fan's question.