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And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.
Billy Corgan
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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.
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I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.
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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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Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.
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