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I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.
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Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.
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I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.
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I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.
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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 think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.
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You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.
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My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.
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All I can go on is my own value system.
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Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
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We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.
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People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
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I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails we've always been on our terms.
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You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.
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That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.
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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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I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.
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I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, Why are you being calculated? Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.
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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.
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When you present people with things from the heart and from the soul, they make better choices: They make better choices about their bodies, they make better choices about their partners, they make better choices about the environment.
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