“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“I tried to hang on to the past but I couldn’t keep my grasp. Nothing lasts.” – Matthew Sweet
“God doesn’t play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players (everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” – Neil Gaiman
“Only for a moment did life make him whole and while he was he thought he was invincible.” – Matthew Sweet, Smog Moon
“In this beautiful life, there’s always some sorrow…” – Great Big Sea, Ordinary Day
“Used to be all I’d want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you” – Ed Roland, Collective Soul, “Forgiveness”
“And I don’t ever really understand all the things that we say but I try to anyway, anyhow” – Ross Childress, Collective Soul, “Dandy Life”
“Have you heard that someone’s dreams could be another’s reality?” – Ed Roland, Collective Soul, “Thick”
“It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don’t say half of what I think, I wonder what I’m thinking for” – Chantal Kreviazuk, “Imaginary Friend”
“Out of sight beyond confusion, still I’m here defining my own truth” – Ed Roland, Collective Soul, “Turn Around”
“Today we lived a thousand years, all we have is now” – Ed Kowalczyk, Live, “Run to the Water”
“I based it a little bit on my mom, and a little bit on three girls that I dated, who all came from the same background as my mother… all their fathers were alcoholics or recovering alcoholics. They were growing up and had to deal with something that I never could imagine. Dealing with everyday situations was a little bit more difficult for them, because of their upbringing. The song is just kind of an observation.”~Ed Roland talking about ‘She Said’
” It’s a song of guidance…whether you’re asking for guidance from above or below or parental or a friend or relationship. I guess you could say it’s asking your whole surroundings for
guidence.”~Ed Roland talking about ‘Shine’
“People want so badly to label this band, and I refuse to be labeled.” – Ed Roland
“All you need is love.” – John Lennon
“Don’t judje yourself by other peoples standards. You’ll always loose.” – Billy Corgan
“If you cant hear what im saying, it’s cool cause I’m still saying it.” – Billy Corgan
“You can put out the big fire [Napster], but there are 100 other little fires ready to spring up, and you’ll never put them all out. Ultimately, music is going to be free.” – Billy Corgan on the Napster controversy from an MTV interview
“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!” – Billy Corgan
“The thing that makes it all worth it is when somebody comes up and says ‘I had a really hard time in my life and your album really helped me.’ As long as that happens, all the idiots in the world and all the stupid press can say what they want to. It just doesn’t matter.” – Billy Corgan
“Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre” – Billy
“Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school” – Billy
“With Machina, we have come to take our crown back one more time and piss on it” – Billy Corgan
“Bless us all for what we think and feel is all we really have” – Billy
“If practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, then why practice?” – Billy
“Contrary to what you’ve heard, contrary to what you’ve read, the revolution is not over. It has just begun.” – Billy
“The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what’s going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don’t know what to do with themselves.” – Billy
“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” – Popular Mechanics, 1949