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I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.
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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People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
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I usually wake up far after breakfast. That's as much as you're going to find out about my dietary requirements other than marijuana and vodka.
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My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
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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 feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.
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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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It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound. And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.
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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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I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
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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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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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That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.
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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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For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.
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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'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.
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The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.
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Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.
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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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At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.
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