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
skins shed
We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.
children smart school
I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just knew it.
inspirational letting-go fun
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
time doe answers
Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.
mother responsibility exercise
My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.
world lines neat
Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.
mother father two
I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.
people interaction
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
people fool
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
artist what-matters want
To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
inspirational life art
Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.
spent written wrote
I always wrote. I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the '80s developing my craft as a writer.
If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.
apologize contact customer imagine respond
If he did contact our customer service, and we didn't respond appropriately, then we apologize for that. I can't imagine how frustrating this must have been for him.