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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.
Billy Corgan
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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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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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A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
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If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.
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You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.
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