Billy Corgan

OK, you had to make a whole set.

You don't get to sit there and say, my dad's got a university gig and he's going to take care of me when I'm in the band that nobody wants to listen to.

Isn't that shocking?

Like, I mean, isn't it for a woman?

I mean, I don't mean it this way.

I'm saying the boys there, too.

Boys, they're like Peter Pan.

It's like.

You don't really understand the true cost of vulnerability because you don't have to live it.

Okay.

The construct of the current generation, let's call it the current musical generation, because obviously there's different ages at play, so it's not just one generation.

Youngblood's 28, that's what I know.

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.