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Billy Corgan says he doesn’t mind playing a character that irritates people or makes them question his sanity. He warns that labels can become a noose that drags artists down and that music should help people live their lives, not just fuel drug use. He also notes that some older fans are still cool and worth listening to.

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I work differently than most people.

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I want people to see me happy.

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In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

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The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

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Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

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We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

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Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

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We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.

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People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.

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My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

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I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much…

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I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or…

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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…

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We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud…

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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…

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I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't…

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There's a lot of UFO sightings in New Orleans, which isn't really too surprising. There's a lotta crazy people there. The people…

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I don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought…

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I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far…

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I don't like that the government is going to manipulate the information to try to convince me that what I'm eating is…

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In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something…

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I think it would be very interesting to see that many people would probably be okay with paying more for services and…

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You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have…

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Instead of taking the 'I'm cool, I hope you adore me' path (with my music), I chose the path of how to…

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I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and…

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I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not…

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You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have…

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There's something going on right now in America, where the American spirit or character is reasserting itself around liberty. I think it's…

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I think I kind of approached music with this sort of, like, weird thing where I kinda set myself up where I…

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In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.

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I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

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Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.

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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 important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

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There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

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I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like…

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The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight…

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People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want…

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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…

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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…

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In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.

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I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to…

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…