I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I would always say to anyone, you make choices that are important to you. Don't allow yourself to be exploited by something… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The truth is, no matter how modest Steven [Sebring] is, he was obsessed with the outcome of the film [Dream of Life].… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
New generations are intoxicated with the idea that they can make their presence known on the Internet. When I was young, there… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone… — 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