Billy Corgan

Yeah, I was struck by this, and correct me if it's wrong, but when you were about seven, your parents adopted three kids.

Yes.

That's got to... Even if you liked them, that had to be a big...

shift.

What was the inner thinking for your parents to bring three kids into your home?

Did you get an explanation?

Yeah, he's seven years old.

It's hard to intellectually process that.

Yeah, but still, it struck me as a very intense thing, you know?

You know, almost all artists, not all, but almost all that I've met seem to have some particular moment in their life that sort of shifts...

Right.

Puts them in a spot where they have to go inward to figure something out and that it becomes part of the faculty that they later discovered to communicate.

That's an interesting question.

I had a chance to have a career in academia because I was a good student.

But I didn't feel passionate about it.

I love learning.

Like even talking to you, I love doing the research and I love all that.

Yeah, I bless you.

But a life in the arts is really, it's like a priest calling or something.

It has a divine aspect.