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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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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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I've become a guy who's like a complaining, whining neurotic.
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To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
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We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band.
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I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.
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I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.
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If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.
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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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You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
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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 want to make great songs.
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Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.
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I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life
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Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.
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If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.
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I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.
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I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails we've always been on our terms.
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I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.
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If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.
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Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.
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Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.
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