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The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.
Billy Corgan
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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
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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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If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.
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When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
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I want to make great songs.
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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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You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.
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The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.
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I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.
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As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.
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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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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 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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We are the most beloved and hated band in the world.
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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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Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.
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If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.
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I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
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