Bill Corgan, the lead singer of the rock band Smashing Pumpkins, revealed in a recent interview with The New York Times that he is not the typical liberal artist.
Corgan, who has appeared on Alex Jones’ InfoWars, said he identifies as a “free-market libertarian capitalist.”
He added he is not “anti-anything except Establishment. I find institutions and systems suspicious.”
He also theorized that it was his openness about his politics, along with his love for trolling the press, that has kept his band from a certain level of success.
“I would say [that] 80 percent of the things that I get held up and mocked for, I’m doing intentionally,” said Corgan.
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Corgan previously made controversial comments many took as a defense of President Trump, but the singer said he holds no political allegiances and hasn’t voted since 1992.
Though Smashing Pumpkins has enjoyed admirable success as a band, he believes he could have better served that success by keeping his mouth shut.
“If I kept my mouth shut, and if I kept my band together, we’d be playing a lot bigger venues and we would be a lot more successful, and we’d be in somebody’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” the rocker declared.
The band is reportedly gearing up for a U.S. tour, with further world dates to be announced shortly.
(photo credit, homepage image: Billy Corgan, CC BY 2.0, by Jordan Cameron; photo credit, article image: Billy Corgan, CC BY 2.0, by Jordan Cameron)
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