I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo -… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, "I'm done. I'm never going to be a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres… — 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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