Billy Corgan explains why he won’t make ‘beautiful’ Dolly Parton story public

Billy Corgan doesn't want to jump on the bandwagon by sharing his "beautiful" Dolly Parton story.

The Smashing Pumpkins front man has revealed he only met the country icon, who died last month aged 80, once and while he would like to share the story of their meeting, he wants to wait until a more appropriate time.

Billy told PEOPLE magazine, "So I never had the chance to meet her outside of this one story —which I’m not going to tell — but the reason I’m telling you this is because after her passing, I watched a lot of people on social media... this incredible outpouring of love and respect from every genre in music: metal, country, obviously, pop.”

He continued, “And the fact that she was a humanitarian, especially with literacy and hundreds of millions of books shared and all of that, I thought I just don’t want to be another person sort of jumping on this social pile and saying, ‘Hey, it’s my turn to tell my story.’

"So, I feel like when that’s all calmed down in a very kind of sweet way, I’ll tell that story,” the rock star mentioned.

The 59-year-old rock star hinted that his personal story of crossing paths with Dolly is "short" and "beautiful".

"But the point is — maybe because I lived in a time before social culture — I understand everybody’s willing to share, and I enjoyed everybody sharing, but my story is so small against these amazing stories that I keep hearing,” Billy explained.

"So, I didn’t want to be like, ‘Oh yeah, me too,’” Billy Corgan said with finality of keeping his Dolly Parton moment private.