Billy Corgan

There was the... Like the cat.

I'm not really a lesbian, but I'm a lesbian.

Right.

You know, there was the skin... Like the Danita.

The pretty skinhead girl.

Okay.

You know, you'd be like, why are you skinhead?

You're pretty.

You know, they're like... Yeah, yeah.

You know what I mean?

There weren't a lot of, like, charismatic, shoulders-back...

Well, I guess what I'm after here.

Sure.

But you're smart enough to figure out what I'm after here, which is like, you know.

People look at one end of the telescope and they see a rain contour, an out-of-control child, you know, and, you know, there are the easy threads.

That's what I'm saying.

So I want people to understand there's a layer of sophistication here that has to do with somebody making decisions, in some cases binary and other cases more complicated, that builds the machine of you.

So when you've foist yourself onto the public consciousness, it's shocking, right?

But if you know the story, it's actually not that shocking.

That's kind of what I'm after.