Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth30 December 1946
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
comprehend saw taken wonder
I did not comprehend and I often wonder what he ever saw in me, and it has taken me all these years to understand.
continue work
I am still a very optimistic person. I continue to do work with joy.
good life
What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted to grow.
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When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.
adore architecture love people
People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.
mohammed personally
Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
close exactly
'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.
feels
Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
appeals mainstream music
Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.
francis last quite time
I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was studying it for a song that I did for my last album, 'Banga.'
love
When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.
barracks bought built dad factory house housing job money raised saved sort south temporary
My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.
bang break forth glass head steps trying
It would go back and forth between the two of us and then it would go over here and bang its head on the steps trying to break the glass off.