Billy Talks Jessica!

Although it’s been a long time since Smashing Pumpkins had a hit, Billy Corgan opens up to Rolling Stone about his spiritual beliefs, deep depression and his love of Jessica Simpson. Ha!

Here are some HIGHlights:

On his critics:
“Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do. I’ve been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am. So all the Pitchforks in the world can try to strip me of every ounce of dignity, but I belong.”

On the Pumpkins’ breakup:
“Rather than break up the band, what I should have done is chuck James [Iha] out. I should have just said to Jimmy [Chamberlin], ‘You go to rehab, and we’ll continue, and James, get the f*ck out of here.’ Instead, I fell on my sword for James, for what I thought was a friend.”

On his spiritual beliefs:
Corgan beleives that we’re building to a cataclysm or a major vibrational shift in 2012; he wonders what was really in the H1N1 vaccine; he fears that the United States is headed toward a Soviet Union-style economic collapse… But when pressed on details, he backs off: “I don’t want to be a dead hero.”

On his depressing thoughts:
“Go eat breakfast, or go kill yourself.├óΓé¼┬¥

On “loving” Jessica Simpson:
├óΓé¼┼ôIf I go, ├óΓé¼╦£Oh, we├óΓé¼Γäóre just friends,├óΓé¼Γäó then it├óΓé¼Γäós like, ├óΓé¼╦£Did they go out, did he dump her or she dump him, what happened?├óΓé¼Γäó It has nothing to do with any of that. Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that. My goal in life is to love whoever I think is worth loving, and I think if people knew her like I knew her, they would love her like I do. It├óΓé¼Γäós really simple.”

WTF do U think happened to him?!

[Image via Kristin Burns]