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
Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.
A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in conceptual ideas of the future, but if you don't know the source of the thinking, [it] wouldn't make any sense.
I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.
Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.
I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.
I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time.
I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.
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.