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Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
Musician
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Billy Burke
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William Patrick Corgan
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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 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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I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.
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The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
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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 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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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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There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.
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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 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 was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.
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I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.
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Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.
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To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
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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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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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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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That's the real endeavor: to try to create that direct conduit from the pure consciousness of your creative voice to the person who's a craftsman who can go into the world and consistently deliver new things worth paying attention to.
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In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
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