Billy Corgan Says John Mayer Is Trying To Kill His Own Career

Posted by Mitch Michaels on 03.11.2010

Corgan says that John should have left Jessica Simpson alone...

Billy Corgan says that John Mayer's recent interview in Playboy magazine, where he drops the n-bomb and makes sexual references to Corgan's "dear friend" Jessica Simpson - is proof that Mayer is trying to self-destruct.

"He's trying to destroy his career," Corgan said. "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 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."

Corgan also commented on the Simpson line. He said, "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. There's things that should just be left alone."