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I work differently than most people.

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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Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
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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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If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.
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The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.
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To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
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Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a God or Gods should pose no threat to you.
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I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
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I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
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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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You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.
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I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.
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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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I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.
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The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.
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That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win, but what a shnoozo.
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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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It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable.
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I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college.
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Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
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