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I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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William Patrick Corgan
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It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable.
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Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose
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The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.
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In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.
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Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.
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I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.
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I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past.
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The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.
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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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I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.
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Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
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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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I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.
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I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
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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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