Billy Corgan: John Mayer is 'Trying to Destroy His Career'

By Dino Sossi Posted Mar 13th 2010 11:40AM

Takes one to know one. Smashing Pumpkins front man, and self-proclaimed own worst enemy, Billy Corgan believes John Mayer is sabotaging himself, reports Rolling Stone.

"He's trying to destroy his career," judged Corgan, after reading Mayer's incendiary comments in his explosive Playboy interview. "Rather than take a year off or change his musical direction... some part of it is irritating his soul to the point where he's trying to blow it up... Certainly [Mayer is] a talented guy, but empathetically, standing on the sidelines, it's hard to watch someone literally burn their career to the ground -- speaking as somebody who's done it."

In the soul-searching article, Corgan reveals his own struggles with depression and even suicidal thoughts. "Unless you count what he's done to his career, Billy Corgan has never attempted suicide," the article begins. "Until recently, there were plenty of mornings when he'd wake up to a stark choice: 'Go eat breakfast, or go kill yourself.'" Corgan later reluctantly reveals, "There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten."

Corgan goes out of his way to defend his "friend" Jessica Simpson. Mayer notoriously referred to Simpson as "sexual napalm" in the Playboy interview. "As far as it pertains to her. I think for any person who has celebrity to sort of drop rocks at somebody else's feet like that -- there's things you should really just keep your mouths shut on," says Corgan. "There's things that should just be left alone." And they say chivalry is dead.

Read more about Billy Corgan at Rolling Stone.

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