“The goodwill that surrounded us was proof that the Fates were conspiring to help their enthusiastic children.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“The child, mystified by the commonplace, moves effortlessly into the strange..” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“The mind of a child is like a kiss on the forehead — open and disinterested” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, "Don't film me anymore," [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Steven [Sebring] was documenting me as a widow with two children, going from 50 to 60 years old. My focus, during that… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In the '50s you had to wear pink ribbons if you were a girl, and you were supposed to become a hairdresser… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I had met Michael Stipe, and he was such a kind person, and extremely understanding, so I asked him if he knew… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was at one of the lowest points of my life when we started this film [Dream of Life], except, of course,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William Blake wrote for the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As a child I was such an intense daydreamer; I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I started going to Bible school really early in life. Being raised a Jehovah's Witness, I had to read the Bible over… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening closely to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
![“[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They gravitated to him right away.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/274/patti-smith-394_attention_steven-sebring-presence-was-also-nice-fo_526295.jpg)
![“If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, "Don't film me anymore," [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them; he just respected their wishes.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0ea/patti-smith-394_children_if-someone-didn-t-want-to-be-filmed-or-m_1648462.jpg)
![“Steven [Sebring] was documenting me as a widow with two children, going from 50 to 60 years old. My focus, during that time, was to rediscover myself, stay healthy, take care of my kids and reestablish a relationship with the people.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/716/patti-smith-394_care_steven-sebring-was-documenting-me-as-a-w_207231.jpg)
![“I had met Michael Stipe, and he was such a kind person, and extremely understanding, so I asked him if he knew a photographer who would come to Detroit, where I lived, who would be child friendly and who would respect my home. Michael suggested Steven [ Sebring]. One day a knock came at my door…” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/713/patti-smith-394_brother_i-had-met-michael-stipe-and-he-was-such_548822.jpg)
![“I was at one of the lowest points of my life when we started this film [Dream of Life], except, of course, that I had two great children. But the film is not documenting a decline; it's documenting a rise up - first baby steps and then big steps up. The worst that could have ever happened to me…” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/788/patti-smith-394_ascent_i-was-at-one-of-the-lowest-points-of-my_2048809.jpg)
![“Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c73/patti-smith-394_cursing_sometimes-people-seem-to-think-i-came-ou_28268.jpg)
