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For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose
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I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
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Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.
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I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.
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Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
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I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in conceptual ideas of the future, but if you don't know the source of the thinking, [it] wouldn't make any sense.
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What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere -- to a happy place.
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Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
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I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.
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The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
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If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.
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I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life
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I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.
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If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
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