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Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Billy Burke
Corgan
Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
Pumpkin
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I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.
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Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.
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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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To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
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Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
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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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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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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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Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.
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