2) Billy Corgan on composing,
"The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets."
1) Background - In the very first of all Sherlock Holmes Novels, A Study in Scarlet (1890 - Doyle), A young Dr. Watson remarks about his sleepless evening over the grim scene he has previously witnessed. Holmes responds with a though provoking insight to the mind, proving how a positive could also be a negative.