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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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William Patrick Corgan
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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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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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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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I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.
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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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These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
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We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.
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To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
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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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Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.
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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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The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.
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And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.
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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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