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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Billy Burke
Corgan
Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
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That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.
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To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
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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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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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A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
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I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
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There's nothing more satisfying than going to a market and meeting the person who picked the strawberries, or it's their farm that the strawberries came from, and giving them a fair value in exchange for what they're giving you.
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I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.
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Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.
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Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself.
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