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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.
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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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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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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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The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves.
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I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make more integral choices about the food they eat.
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I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
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A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
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I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
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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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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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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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I like my home and I like the nature.
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Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose
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It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance.
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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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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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I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.
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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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