Few artists have so effectively tapped into the human phsyche than Billy. His music came to us, and sometimes it was like a small, bore sized drill going through our skulls, and sometimes it was like someone whispering sweet nothings into our ears, and sometimes it was like complete euphoria. Billy has the abitity to manipulate our feelings, subconciousness, and total mind, and we both loathe and adore him for it. While other artists trampled our innocence, and toyed dangerously with our delicate, impressionable teenage minds, Billy molded us in strength and wisdom, and gave himself to anyone who would listen. He is a martyr, god, and a mere human mortal all at the same time. He begs us to believe in him, and asks us if he's the man he's supposed to be. And we respond... by opening up our most trusted, delicate parts of ourselves, and imitating his exquisite, carefully crafted poetry.
-Joanna

What Billy and I have in Common

Billy and I are the same in some ways. We both have been depressed at times, we both have been to therapy, we both play guitar(I just started so I suck), we both LOVE music, I want to shave my head, I am very different compared to the other kids at school, we both write lyics, both of us are tall, and many other things.
-Panfilo

My Room, My World

In my room the carpet is blue, like the oceans, like Billy's eyes. The light bulb is the sun, which brings light when I am blind. Just as Billy's words bring light to my heart when it is darkened by the hatred in this world. I have a bunk bed, where no one sleeps on the top. The upper bunk is heaven, and I sleep in the lower bunk called hell. There is a huge poster of the gods on the clouds stuck to my wall, where they watch my every move and doing. This isn't a poem which is supposed to rhyme, it's just about my room, my world, and my gods. The lord Billy and his Disciples Darcy and James watch over us all.

-Darcy Iha Corgan

Billy's lyrics make me want to weep!! Billy's EVERYTHING!!!
-Megan

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-Panfilo

The Pumpkins Rule and that says it all.
- Adam Wilson

In the freak chance that Billy Corgan might stumble onto this shrine, I hope he reads this: His music really makes my life better, no matter how depressing, angst, or sad it is. Songs like "Medillia of the gray skies" and "stumbline" take me out of my hell and help me dream, and to think more openly. i dont care much about what people think of me, but more importantly, I care that they KNOW how I am.
- jess (PeA BrAiN)

~So That His Tears Might Shed Happy~

No one needs me, and his music is an escape from the horrors that haunt me. Do you understand this obsession that I let take over my life?
He is a god...I simply worship him and all of his heavenly beauty. I relate to his lyrics and I can feel his touch prance around in my mind...I know he hurts...I will keep on trying until his tears might shed happy for I adore him...

-Kelly

Billy Addly

I wanna go for a ride, to take a peek inside,
Drink a cup of Mercury phosphate,
ooh, yea, i just can't wait...for you, junebug...
Change, Change, Change it to ray gun...i know, my darling..you just wanna have fun.
my baby, baby Mars...let me dress your wounds and heal your scars,
I just wish i was your sweet sweet.
-Lyrics from my band, Shreds Of Sanity

- LyNDsaY ZerO

Dear Billy,
I would just like to tell you a little about myself. I was born June 6, 1981 at Prat hospital in KS. I have been a Pumpkins fan for 1 1/2 years now. It seems to me that know matter how I am feeling, sad, happy, or mad, your music seems to make me feel 10 times better. My Grandpa died not to long ago and I was feeling really down. That day I put in the Siameas Dream cd and listend to track 6 (which if I'm not mistaken is Disarm). I do not know why I had never listen to it before. But I must have played it 6 times over and over! And I started feeling better about my Grandpa. Anyway, I would just like to thank you for writing that song. If you hadn't, who knows how I would be feeling right now.

Pumpkins Forever

Jesse Samples

I love Billy. I have this friend who's a friend of Billy and looks like Billy. I wish that I could get back stage passes to see one of his concerts so that I could tell him all my feelings. Billy. You're the greatest. LIVE FOREVER

-Tricia Sparks

Billy is the god in my life, the light on my dark path, and his voice helps me through my pain. Without Billy, I don't know what my life would be like. The Smashing Pumpkins are my life and my way, and I know that will never change. I will forever love waking up to see my 1979 poster hanging above my bed, with beautiful Billy's face shining upon me. Nothing can replace the feeling I get when I turn on the radio and "today" is playing, or I turn on the TV and billy is on. I sincerely love him and I hope he knows this. Billy, if you're out there, please listen. I love you and please one day I hope I meet you.

-Katy (aka Luna)

I wish in my life time I am able to meet Billy and/or see him in concert. He is my life. He has molded my entire existance. I was near a nervous breakdown until I heard the bittersweet words of his lyrics!

-Charlene Suzanne Stunkard

Billy Corgan, through his beautiful music, has taught me how to let out my angst and depression. I have learnt how to be "in love my sadness", and though I may sound worse for having listened to the Smashing Pumpkins' music, I would not have it any other way.
-Tim Jordan

Pursue him,
Love him,
believe him.
Maybe he's but a child, too. . .

-Jennifer

Billy, I love you dearly... without you my life would be oh so dreary... your face is on my every wall... your music soothes my very soul... Billy, I love you and all you stand for... it is truly you that I adore - oh how I wish you were my whore...Thank you for your music which helps me through my day... Thank you for eveything you say and do that makes my life so much worth living.

-Laurie

Billy my one and only
I can hardly wait until I meet him
Silly, I know I'm silly
Cause I'm staring at him on tv
In the hopes that he will marry me
And through the tv screen
I watch his body move....

-Shawna (re-written lyrics, first accredited to Billy Corgan)

"Ordinary Boy" He is a god treated as a man, a genius treated as a failure. Robbed of his intelligence by bad R&B crap that people swing their hair and flaunt their new lipstick to. A drum beat and a pretty face confronts a mortal god and the people let the f*cking poser win. We're different for listening and freaks for believing but that's the way He was in school. Maybe we'll be like him one day, maybe we'll just look back and smile. Who knows? But it's not just a phase. We love you, Billy.

~Jennifer Le Pearson~

I'm 17, but I can still get away with sounding like an average teen :) William Patrick Corgan JR. is human, indeed, but his gifts are a comfort to all. Flesh and blood, but his soul is wise and ancient. Listen to him sing and you will understand what hey conveys to us, the teen machines and death-rock boys. He has been truly blessed with unimaginable beauty, spirit, wisdom, vision, and talent. His music has helped me learn about my unique aspects, individuality, and feelings. If his voice can be heard and welcomed as an anthem for youth, I know that my voice can be heard over the shouts of those who try to put us down. His eyes, the beautiful windows to his soul always succeed in enchaning me. His boyish face, through past pains and pleasures, still brings me to tears-beauty like that should be illegal. No, I'll never meet him in this life, but, perhaps in another I will tell him that he brought youth together and still continues to do so. I figure that what makes him happy is all that matters. May his voice forever ring into the night skies. He will be forever Beautiful.

-Flidais Runs_With_Wolves

I don't think that Billy would ever know just exactly how some people feel about him. I feel that he has changed my lfe forever. It takes a big heart and soul to understand life and what exactly does it meen, but no one knows that and it's not really important. What's important is that we all have to live in this world. It's a world full of lies, cheats, and hatred, but it doesn't have to be like that inside of all of us. Billy has taught me that my life can be what I want it to be. I want my life to be happy, truthful, and lived to the fullest potential that I have to give. I can give everything and take everything as I want it. Billy gave me hope and I thank him for that forever. Love, Siva

Greetings and salutations to you all. I would just like to take a moment and say that Billy used the strength from his inner spirit to shine on our dark souls. In other words he's no different than us, he just found a way to express the way he's felt about life. We're all equal and together we form one, much as the way we were created by God. I love you guys and Billy I would like to say that "you did it man, your a winner" And I have the personal tremendous honor of declaring the smashing pumpkins the Greatest band of our time. Thank you, God bless, Love and Light to everyone forever...

-Dimitri Koltoukis

you're my acid fairy with wings of marijuana you visit me in my sleep and play these songs that frighten me and some that arose me, the understanding between the light and the dark all that we leave up to you to find and put into words that we can hear as the twightlight fades the uncertianty begins we are blasted into a world were you desend. the mystery in your eyes could destory us all. billy corgan makes poets of us all waiting for the endless siamese kiss my pisces king all for you i'd give...to taste the beauty of which you breath in

-rosemary carde corgan

Billy is the most beautiful being I have ever laid eyes on. I met him on Feb 15 1998 and it was the best day of my life, I am so grateful that I was priviledged enough to meet him, and will forever treasure the paper on which he has signed his beautiful name. Through it all, Billy is a constant, changing for no one but himself, he is quite simply the most talented, special person ever to be placed on the earth.

-Holly Stanway

I just want to say Billy Corgan is my saviour.If it had not been for him ,I would have long commited suicide.I love you, Billy and I will always be your greatest fan.

-Li Shen

Billy, you are the master! You are pure genious! Never stop making albums. I will love you forever.

-Jamie Anders

Thanks

I'm no poet, but don't worry. I won't bother to make a pitiful attempt at verse. I just wanted to try to explain what Billy Corgan and his music has meant to me. When I first heard that music, that voice, something just clicked. No matter how you're feeling, you just know he understands. When I'm depressed, that's one of the things I think about to get through it. Billy and his music is my therapy. Everything around me is changing, and when I heard Adore I was a bit upset because it was different. But after I listened to it some more, I realize that change doesn't have to result in something bad. It's a revelation. The happiest time of my life was when I went to the July 7 Adore concert, and I'm not happy all that often. Billy, I know you'll never read this, but just in case.......thanks.

-N.T.O.

Well, what else can I say that hasn't already been said before? Billy is infinitely talented. I love curling up with a blankey, and listening to ADORE as it rains outside. His lyrics make me tingle all over inside. FOR MARTHA gives me goosebumps. I think that Billy is the most underrated musician in the history of music, and it is so refreshing to see websites like this, because I am reminded that I am not alone in my respect and admiration for the King of Gloom. To my fellow Billy lovers, rawk on, because Billy Corgan is always gonna be here in body, mind, and soul.Forever a fan, Juniper

I love Billy Corgan. (duh..you say why else would you be on this site) Well, it's a very deep love. People will say that my obsession with him is "sad", but maybe it's because no other famous person is as love-worthy. He has touched all of our hearts like no other person will. If someone asks me, I say I love him because I truly do. No I'm not going to try to steal him away from Yelena, because he'd probably be happier with her anyway. I would love more than anything to meet him, and talk to him, if only for an hour, it would be the best hour of my life. He understands all of us more than anyone ever will. Yes, he is very beautiful, but that is only secondary to his beautiful heart. Billy, if you ever read this, know that there is someone in Florida who loves you more than words can ever express.

-moonbeam blue

If you're going to appreciate the full range of the emotions contained within the music, you have to feel the hate also. I see myself in Mr. Corgan's words, almost all of them, and I think a true Pumpkinhead should think he or she is the only one Someone who toggles between favorite songs, who plays the songs on the guitar, maybe who analyzes the songs. Someone who used Mellon Collie every winter day to pull tears out when his love went to England for a year. Someone who just wants a little kisskiss.

-Brandon Nelson

This is not a poem for it directs my feelings at Billy.
It does not imply. It states. And anyway, poems do not use semi-colons
I am 16 and am an intelligent person-future music major, but I appreciate no work of music more that Mellon Collie and the Infininte Sadness
Stumbeline made me a queen through mourning and hatred and horrible things
I quote him constantly so much that my mother has had a dream about him sitting in my room
Disarm has given me the grounds to write a story that still remains unfinished but that must be told, not written by me, but channeled through my fingers, inspired by rock's emperor himself
Greater than love, it is Phenomenal admiration
Billy is a more inspiring man to me than my own father
On August 8th, 1998, in sunrise, florida, as he crouched down to churn out play Blank Page, I swear I saw a soul bleed to give ME music, and at that moment I was the only one watching
This is long and hardly eloquent, but any attmepts at eloquence in tribute to Billy could nearly classify as blasphemy
I, in all actuality, just want Billy to know that even though he may feel that alternative music has not reached it's potential to define and motivate a generation, his music has motivated, taught, and inspired me
thank you eternally, Billy

Love, Emily Jane
I know that you are meant for this world
God Bless

Hi.When someone asks me, "What does billy mean to you," I get tongue-tied at first because so much floods my brain. I owe so much to Billy Corgan. He doesn't know it, but that's all right. There have been many, many times in my life where pretty much nothing except the music of the Pumpkins has kept me going. I have felt such extreme disgust at myself and depression that I felt like my own body was a prison. Billy's words and voice helped pull me back from that abyss. I could indulge my feelings, my passions, listening to the music. I think really what is so wonderful about Billy is that the fact he is a very real human being, just like all of us, is what he gets across in music. This is not some person on a pedestal whom we can never hope to be like. No, this is someone who has an incredible ability to give people an outlet for their pain or joy by exposing us to the core of his own humanity. His beautiful spirit only heightens his physical beauty ( even though he doesn't need help in that department!) The result is someone who is so beautiful he still makes my knees knock even with my boyfriend around. To wrap it up, Billy will always have my thanks. I am a strong, happy girl now, and I know much of that wouldn't be possible without Billy. I hope every one of you finds happiness like I have.

Love, Emily

In the darkest of my nightmares, he came and hung the stars, to light my way back home...no one can tell me that I should dream of someone else, because no one else could ever measure up to him. He has saved so many of us from the darkness in ourselves...who can say he is less than divine? to me, he is the angel of twilight, not quite the night, and not quite the day. He is my salvation.

-shygirl

Oh, Billy,
you are really,
fine to me.
I was lost,
and then you found me,
so I just,
pledge to you,
my undying devotion.

There's a story to this. I went to a pumpkins concert overseas. I had a friend who's parents owned the place the pumpkins were staying at. So I got to chill with them for a night and I almost got a lock of his hair. He has a nice strong hug.
I will always treasure that night.

-Jessica

I was born march 17, 1979. Numerologists and astrologists have told me countless times that I was somehow cosmically and numerically connected to William P. Corgan. The more I've learned about Billy, the more I seem to be looking in the mirror. The parallels are endless (or beginningless I might say), and perhaps, in the end (or the beginning) we are connected. But I really think we're all connected in this idiosynchratic jumble of a universe. It makes me wonder, the stars sing a song, and I can't help but go along.

~gŁen~

I have loved the Pumpkins for ever and not because of the cliched "I was so depressed that I wanted to kill myself, and the only thing that got me through my severe sadness was Billy's music, because we share the same pain and lament" scenario. That's a perfectly fine reason, however my reason is that Billy Pumpkin (and of course the rest of the family)rocks, and their music makes me perfecty happy. I think Billy should have a segment on Sesame Street, he'd look really good swinging around on the chair with the glow from the fire reflected on his brow in "Master Piece Theatre".

-Kate

And in my sad machine I'll forever stay desperate and displeased....without Billy. Oh my God I want you SO BAD!!!!!

-Marie Corgan

To Billy

Sometimes I sit at home and try to think about where I'm going with my life and how I spend every day. My friends all say I'm crazy to be thinking of nothing but the Smashing Pumpkins and Billy. I thought about what they said, and I thought long and hard, that maybe I am wasting my time throwing my life away sitting home to watch Billy at 2 AM. But I also thought about how much joy that his music has brought me through the 3 years that I've been listening, and I concluded that nothing in this world can replace the feeling I get when I listen to "Today" or "Love", and I think that whatever I end up doing later in life, I will look back on my Pumpkinhead days, and be willing to do it all over again.

-Jane

"Who am I to need you when you're not around"
heh heh well I'm guilty of this about a million times over when I was little I vowed I'd never be one of those bimbos who falls in love with all those arrogant, awful hearthrobs.. well I kept my promise, that's for sure... one of the things that I love so much about Billy is that he was nothing once, just like all of us, and isn't afraid to admit it either...just think all of you Corgan lovers out there...If he can do it, SO CAN YOU!!!! PEACE ALL!!! I ADORE THE WHOLE LOT OF YOU!!!!!!!

-Luna

Ya know what? This place should be called Billy Corgan Anonymous... the only catch would be NO ONE WANTS TO QUIT!! PUMPKINS RULE THE WORLD!! ROCK ON!!-Soma

Billy couldn't mean more to me
even though he's always in a tree
to me
he has always been the best
even when he was young
because we knew that he was a song.

-Chris Leary

Although the music is unbelievable, there is more to the pumpkins than how they sound. It's that the lyrics mirror your thoughts. It's that Billy knows how you feel. He reveals the thoughts you hid away in your mind, and makes you think. He makes you know that you aren't the only one. That he's been there. That he felt that way. That's what makes him so real to us. He isn't an untouchble celebrity. He's one of us. He's part of who we are. And we love him for that.

-Michelle

Billy is the greatest. Simply for making music that "gives a fuck".

-Allison

Billy has changed my life in so many ways. My band,the Benevolent Order of Irate Gentiles, is nothing near as good as yours. If you ever stumble upon this page, I just want you to know that you're always in my thoughts. YOU ARE GOD.

-Brandi Rossdale

I have a connection to Billy Corgan. My dad is the Pumpkins Stage manager. I have been involved with them since 1990. They were only playing to the people of Chicago then but hey they were still the best. I didn't get to see them play in clubs and bars because I wasn't old enough then. I have been to almost 30 concerts in the past two years. They know my name but they don't have time to hang with me. Their music and Billy's lyrics have really inspired me to be different and I am glad I aint like no regular joe. It makes D'arcy really uncomfortable when I wear my pumpkins shirts around her. I wore one shopping with her one time and she bought me a new shirt because she didn't like me wearing it. I love the pumpkins so much. Mayonaise love, Jenny

My tribute to Billy

I saw one time
a shooting star
and thought of Billy Corgan
I closed my eyes
and made my wish
that he would once understand
just how great he is

It would be the greatest comfort
to make him understand
but maybe that he doesn't
is what makes him what he is

(I LOVE billy more than any words could ever express. I would give my life for Billy. What would we do without that gentle voice whispering in our ears and straight into our brains??)
THANK YOU for everything, Bill.

-Rain

I wrote this one morning after having a nightmare that,the life of me,Billy Corgan,had died. I hope it is understood by all.

Behold!My Nightmare

On this day of hell, I awoke to the darkness of a new life I was now forced to lead."He's dead" they wanted me to understand. "There will be no more help for you" I could not believe.I had to be dreaming, I had to!Though it seemed real.The agony,the pain,the torment & the torture of a death. A part of me died with the news, watching MTV,I slowly fell apart. A comforting hand,no longer on my shoulder.A soft and calming voice no longer shall be heard.We have all that is not new to the world and we shall never have anything new from his heart,mind and lonely soul.Just to touch your hand, to make you believe how much I care,how much we all need to hear you. Everday hereafter your voice shall reside in my broken mind.You have a place in my crumbled heart. I shall forever see your face in my dreams as always.Though we wept, you failed to return to us. "He will never sing again" "He isn't coming back" "He is lonely no more" They told me to keep it together,they told me I would make it.My friend and God was forever gone. Never would he help me through a trying time,never would he write a song for the world, to make us understand. Forever trapped in blue...Forever lost without you, Billy. Pinch me awake, friend.Take away his end.Billy can't be gone,he is needed,loved,and wanted too much.He has shaped the youth and he has listened to our bleeding souls.My sweet endless slumber,wake me, for I may fall from grace here in this unending nightmare.Billy Corgan cannot leave us. Not now,not ever.

-Maggie aka meladori magpie

He has been the biggest inspiration on our lives. Those who know the true meaning of happiness know to look to the music of SP for it. :) Corgan is more than just some ordinary person. He is the one in my life who i love. I have loved him for 8 years and it is steady and growing. Not passionate love, yet love that is not mutual. Maybe I'll meet him one day, but for now I'll have to settle for my boyfriend... lol. I love him so much. But no matter how hard I try.. I can't love him more than Corgan. I guess it's because I've grown with the music. I've grown with him, his thoughts and emotions and the meanings and love of his songs.

-Lindsay

Pumpkin Phenomina--- the phenomina I have created is for all the pumpkins fans. Billy once said "I want our music to come across as someone whispering in your ear and going straight to your brain." Well... he does that. Pumpkins fans seem to experiance, instead of thinking regular thoughts, they think thoughts in the form of Billys lyrics. Like when my boyfriend left me I kept on thinking misc. lyrics of SOMA. You also tend to say them or write them alot. :) I know you know somehow what I'm talking about.

-Lindz

Everyday Words Corganized

organ-corgan
organize-corganize
organization-corganization
organelles-corganelles
orgy-corgy
and my own personal favorite...orgasm-CORAGASM!

-Sarah

I think that without Billy music would not be complete. Sure there are all the other wonders of the alternative music scene but Billy holds them together with his unbelievably sexy lyrics and music. Without Today or Disarm or Zero, heck without them all I would be nothing. I love Billy he is my hero, and definatly not my zero!!! He rocks the night away and is so passionate and realistic. I love billy!!!

-Jess

I guess what first attracted me to Billy Corgan was when I saw "Today" on mtv when I was nine. I had just gotten out of my "I hate boys!" stage, and as I watched the video, I realized "he is REALLY good-looking!" My cousin Margit (who was around 17 or 18 at the time) had already introduced me to their music, but it was this thing that hit me, WHAM. I had liked the emotional intensity of Siamese Dream but it wasn't until the day I saw my first Pumpkins video that I TOTALLY fell in LOVE with Billy and SP. "Today" is still my fave video to date. It has this special charm or something. Billy's best features (in my opinion) are his eyes and cheekbones. I LOVE his eyes, they are always so expressive....
So now I am almost 15, and I feel Billy's music has helped me grow up a lot. A couple of years ago I had some problems in my life but his music kept me strong. As much as I think he's gorgeous and all, I will always be grateful to his voice and words that helped pull me out of the dark. I wish more than anything that I could meet him and tell him this. I hope he knows how much he means to me and all other Pumpkin fans!-Miren aka Sailor Pumpkin

Billy changed my life
How can I ever thank him?
Probably by listening to the pumpkins
every day till I die

-Annie

(I guess I'm another girl on this page. Where are all the boys?...I know you're out there)The point of this is that I discovered SP and felt exactly as everyone on these pages claims to feel. The thing is I thought I was the only one that cried and was inspired and deeply touched from this music, the only one who thought this man was brilliant and beatiful, this page brought back 3 vivid years of memories and realization. Thank you to who ever gave up their time to compile this and thank you to the man of men.

-tms

I just read through this page and it made me cry because all of these people described me so well. I love Billy more than anything in the world/solarsytem/galaxy/universe. Always and forever. I'm glad to know now that I'm not the only one with undying devotion to Billy.

-Lily Corgan

I think Billy is a musically inclined genius. He has the gift of wrighting beautiful, sad, and kick-ass music, all of wich the human emotions feel. There is no other that can produce the kind of sound that he creates. It is his gift and god willing will be a family trait wich his children follow. I've been listening to him since I was 10 years old and I am now 15. I play almost all his songs on my guitar and almost cry when I here the pieces of music he makes. Billy is a geneous and there is no one else like him. He is unique.

-Phillip Morgan

I won't say "The Pumpkins saved my life". I won't say "Billy is soooo cute, I love him" (even thought I'd LOVE to write it...). I won't write any of my (stupid) poems. I won't say that "Ava Adore" lyrics (specially when Billy sings "you'll always be my whore... cause you're the one that I adore") makes me shiver (like all the stuff he writes). I won't say those things, but they're the truth... well I'm gonna say that: one day I'll shake Billy's hand. One day I will, and I'll say to him "I'm a pisces, man. Just like you."

-Livia

Billy Corgan truly the greatest song writer of our time!!!

-Lizzy

I would like to thank Billy for infinite inspiration and the music too of course.

-Scott

Beautiful, magical, spectacle, lyrical, miracle.

-Calico Tails

There are few things on earth as beautiful as a well written song.

- Laurnel Tails *(my mother, herself a fan of The Smashing Pumpkins )*

BILLY-- each & every day i say a little prayer. i pray that you are happy, safe, and feeling the love that so many have for you. i pray that someday i will be able to tell you that i love you. you are like my guardian angel. i wear a locket at all times that carries a picture of your cherubic face. i like to think that you are always near me you guide me. i hope someday you'll realize that you are such a miracle. i will always love you. "i'll be under your stars forever, neither here nor there, just right beside you."

-CARRIE

I love Billy Corgan. He's so amasing! And really Cute I just can't write all the good thing I want to say he's just so great to me, I just can't dercribe the way feel.

-Laura

Billy isn't a god as many have implied, he's just like you and me and THAT is what makes him great. but Billy and the gang dont put on this "hipper than thou" attitude and his lyrics are as real as it gets. I would be to embarrassed to share some of the things he has shared with us, Disarm for instance. I think he's not a god but rather just a generous person for giving us the gift of knowing that someone knows what we're going through, and is able to do so in a beautiful way and I'm thankful for that. I don't worship him, I just want to be able to shake his hand someday, (preferrable the one with the birthmark)and tell him "man, you're the best. Thanks for giving damn."

-thinlizzy

Billy Corgan is the master of give-a-damn music. For that I cherish him and his wondrous band. May they rawk our lives forever.

-Sparkletails

my thoughts really mean alot to me since I used to not be able to express them with anything but shouting angrily at everything that ever crossed my path and blaming god for everything that ever made me suffer. Then..there came a band..everyone knows who the band is or else I wouldn't be writing this. The Smashing Pumpkins. They did encourage me to be someone instead of a damn screw in the ground. I began to express my feelings calmly with a pen and paper..poetry..music, and I guess people liked me better that way. The Pumpkins have been very inspiring. Most parents think " they're a bad influence" or "they're just a phase..it'll pass". Well, maybe it is a phase to the world, but to me it's my life.

over and out

-ophelia