Billy Corgan Quotes

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

Originality is dangerous.

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

It's important to be unconventional.

As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.

Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy.

If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

Since when was genius found respectable?

We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.