Billy Corgan

Were you appearing on David Letterman's TV show or something of equivalent value?

How many records did you sell?

How many records did you sell?

How many tickets did you sell?

How many tickets did you sell?

But as you know, and it's particular to this, your generation was the first generation to face this.

But as you know, and it's particular to this, your generation was the first generation to face this.

You can be a huge internet band and you can't sell more than a thousand tickets in any major American city.

You can be a huge internet band and you can't sell more than a thousand tickets in any major American city.

And then you have these other artists and there's many of them now where they're arena bands and

And then you have these other artists and there's many of them now where they're arena bands.

They actually don't have that many fans, but they're able to compress that fan base into success.

They actually don't have that many fans, but they're able to compress that fan base into success.

Yeah.

Do you find yourself looking for external definition of where you place in that firmament or do you look towards the past?

Do you find yourself looking for external definition of where you place in that firmament?

Or do you look towards the past?

Like, how do you calculate your own success?

Like, how do you calculate your own success?

And I don't mean even material ways because I think, again, there's so many different ways to calculate success in this interesting time.