Billy Corgan
Billy Corgan
William Patrick "Billy" Corgan Jr. is an American musician, songwriter, producer, television writer, poet, and professional wrestling promoter best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and sole permanent member of The Smashing Pumpkins. Formed by Corgan and guitarist James Iha in Chicago, Illinois, in 1987, the band quickly gained steam with the addition of bassist D'arcy Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. The band's direction has largely been driven by Corgan through his confessional lyrics, grandiose production values, and virtuosic musical...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth17 March 1967
CityElk Grove Village, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.
I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness.
I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.
I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.
Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.
I realize I'm a mirror.
I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.
I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.
I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.
You give me a @#$%& kazoo and I'll write you a good song.