Billy Corgan

If your audience has been raised on top...

They don't respond to indie alternative language the way that we did.

Okay, God bless, but let me finish why I'm telling you this.

When you found The Bunnymen or Joy Division or Bauhaus or Sisters, you felt like you'd found the secret to the universe.

There are people making music for what I'm actually doing.

Well, that's what I said the other day, because I just did a benefit for Stephen Tyler.

I know, Stephen Tyler.

No, but to... Because I was talking to a friend, actually, that works on the show, who's a friend of Stephen's.

To us, Aerosmith was an alternative band.

Oh, yeah.

But when you find that, like I found Cheap Trick or you found.

Well, Cheap Trick is the whole sauce.

Like there it is.

But I'm saying when you find it, you're like, oh, my God, these guys have the manual to get me out of here.

Just to finish the point.

Have you found, like I have, that people's obsessions often belie their greatest fear?

Okay.

So my argument is the reason the upper middle class to snobby rich kid class, almost predominantly white, by the way.

It goes to upper, but middle.

But they need the upper middle class to give it the legitimacy.