Patti Smith Quotes
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In the '60s, I used to love rock magazines; I'd cut out pictures of Bob Dylan and John Lennon.
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I am still a very optimistic person. I continue to do work with joy.
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Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
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I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.
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No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
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You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
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As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.
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I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.
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New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.
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I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.
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I know that some people have different personas for the different things they do, and I'm not criticizing that - maybe it's a good thing - but I'm the same old person, so I take everything in stride.
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I don't believe people playing rock n' roll should have crowns. We're not kings and queens. Anybody can play it.
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I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.
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For everything bad, there's a million really exciting things, whether it's someone puts out a really great book, there's a new movie, there's a new detective, the sky is unbelievably golden, or you have the best cup of coffee you ever had in your life.
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If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.
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Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
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I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.
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I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
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I never thought I was gonna live to 30.
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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
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Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
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The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.
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As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.
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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.