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Billy Corgan: "When Kurt died, I cried because I lost my greatest opponent"

Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins performs at Hordern Pavilion on April 19, 2023 in Sydney, Australia

Billy Corgan's got news for anyone who thinks he might be running out of steam after the Smashing Pumpkins dropped new triple album ATUM; he hasn't even started!

“If god gave me talent then the competitive spirit in that would be that I want to win the Superbowl but not at the expense of someone else. I want a fair fight and if I beat you, I beat you," Corgan told Zane Lowe in a new interview for Apple Music that you can watch below. "When all is said and done, I want the Pumpkins standing on the top of the heap of our generation. If that means I got to write 800 songs to do it, I’ll do it. I ain’t shy about that. I will go down always as saying, Kurt was the most talented guy of our generation. Kurt had so much talent. It’s like frightening. It was like a John Lennon level of talent, where you’re like, ‘How can you have all this talent?’ Or Prince, right? But Kurt’s not here, sadly. So I looked around, I was like, ‘All right, well, I could beat the rest of them for sure.’”

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