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I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.
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For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.
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The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.
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To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
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People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.
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This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.
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When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.
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My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.
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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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The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
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I don't necessarily believe that the sting of failure is a bad thing. It gives you a certain amount of freedom to just say fuck it!
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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 wiped out.
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Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
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The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.
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People always called The Cure gloomy, but listening to The Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.
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My mother came to a Smashing Pumpkins gig once, and I was wearing a dress. She was very upset. She said, 'Everyone's gonna think you're a fag.' I said,'Well, they already think I'm an asshole.'
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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March 17, 1967
(age 57)
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