“Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.”
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The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.
Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.