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We're both cat lovers [with Marilyn Manson].

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
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Singer-Songwriter
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William Patrick Corgan
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Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.
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Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.
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I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.
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There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.
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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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In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.
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Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.
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To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
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Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.
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Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.
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My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.
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I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
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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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The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.
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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 believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
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When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
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I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.
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I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.
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I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.
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