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I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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Billy Burke
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William Patrick Corgan
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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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Like any form of death, at some point you just have to get up and say yeah I'll take it, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen and sorta chop your head off. It's easy to avoid all that...there's always another moment, another girl, another high, another drug, there's always something to distract you.
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Most great records really start with the drums.
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There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
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The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.
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Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
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At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.
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We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting.
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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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Fur is a contentious issue. Meat is a contentious issue. GMOs are a contentious issue. I think this whole thing going on about whether or not products should be labeled if they have GMOs in them - I, as a consumer, would like to know if I'm eating GMO food. If I choose to buy it then it's my choice.
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You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.
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People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
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What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
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I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
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Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.
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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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That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win, but what a shnoozo.
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I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.
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I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.
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I like my home and I like the nature.
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