I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real… — 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
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