870 Quotes by Patti Smith

I was always trying to pick guys up. I'd ask guys out and stuff like that. I had no pride. I was the biggest lurch at dances, waiting for the ladies' choice. I'd lunge at my prey like a baby wolf.

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

I can't judge how another person does their [music] work. Everyone has a choice and the music industry is much more open that it was when I was younger. Certain things are gone, others have developed, but everyone makes their choices. Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public. I don't feel it's my place to judge. I just look at things as a fan, I like or or I don't like it.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.