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
My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We have to believe, as creators - just like a doctor doing heart surgery has to believe that he can save that… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All… — 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
Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through. — 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
I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I drew no line between life and art. I was the same on- as offstage.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a… — 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
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