The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. Thats what critics cant put their finger on. – Billy Corgan
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, thats the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. Thats the American story, again and again. – Billy Corgan
Im a big collector of vinyl – I have a record room in my house – and Ive always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as Im writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film. – Quentin Tarantino
Real healing happens when we dare to breathe in the universe, stretching both body and soul to reach for balance and truth. Sometimes, healing moments take forever to arrive. At other times, they fall in our laps with sheer grace, like a feather from an unseen bird. – Kristina Turner, The Self-Healing Cookbook, 2002, originally published 1987 [a l