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
taken mean writing
More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.
mom stars simple
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 human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that but in the end I'm just a person. I really don't live like a rock star, economically or socially. I still live a pretty simple life beside the traveling aspect of it.
wish paper projects
I wish I could just project everything on the paper,
makeup faces platforms
I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.
whole knows universe
I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.
drug tools use
I use drugs to work. I never use them to escape or for pleasure. When you turn to drugs, all you're doing is turning inside, anyway. I only use drugs for construction. It's like one of my architectural tools.
our-love way contradiction
We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.
one-day together
One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
dirty book thinking
The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.
dream views hands
The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting, ever new.
grief tears
Grief isn't all tears.
new-year yearning turns
I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.
rooms energy tension
I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.
cobain amy youth
I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.