870 Quotes by Patti Smith

Patti, did art get us?' I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.' Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint.

Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.

Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.

Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.

I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I don't. Like, I believe in the Rolling Stones but not in the Dave Clark Five. There's nothing philosophic about it. Whenever I'm linked with a movement, it pisses me off.

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.