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To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

— Billy Corgan Smashing Pumpkins (1996)

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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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I’m trying to figure out how to take the instrument and have it still sound like a guitar, but put you in a different universe.

For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

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