Billy Corgan on Kurt Cobain's death

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Billy Corgan was in the news yesterday when he gave an interview to Apple Music and talked about how the death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain affected him. Corgan would reveal during the interview
You know me well enough to know that when it's all said and done I want the Pumpkins standing on the top of the heap of our generation. And if that means I gotta write 800 songs to do it, I'll do it. I ain't shy about that.
"I will go down always as saying Kurt [Cobain] was the most talented guy of our generation," "Kurt had so much talent it's like frightening, it was like a John Lennon level of talent, where you're like, How can you have all this talent? Or Prince, right? But Kurt's not here, you know, sadly... so I looked around, and I was like, Alright, well, I could beat the rest of them for sure."
“When Kurt died, I cried because I lost my greatest opponent,” “I want to beat the best. I don’t want to win the championship because it’s just me and a bunch of jabronis, to use a wrestling term.”
The Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana would both be one of the top alternative bands of the 90’s, but it would take The Smashing Pumpkins half a decade to top the album charts. In May of 1991 The Smashing Pumpkins would release their debut record Gish, with Nirvana releasing their second and major label debut Nevermind in September of the same year. While it would take Nirvana four months to have a number when album when in january of 92 they displaced Michael Jackson from the top of the billboard charts.In July 1993, the Pumpkins’released their second album Siamese Dream arrived, with Nirvaana’s final full length studio record arriving in September of the same year. Siamese dream would go 4x platinum while In-Utero went 5x platinum, although you could easily make the argument that had Kurt Cobain not died in April of 94 the album would have likely sold even better. The Smashing Pumpkins wouldn’t get their first No. 1 album until their follow up 1995’s Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, which came out a year after Kurt Cobain had died.
The Smashing Pumpkins are currently on their north america the world is a vampire tour.