870 Quotes by Patti Smith

I was still a baby bird when I was 28.

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.'

For me, personally, I think drugs are sacred and should be used for work. That's what I believe in. Drugs have a real shamanistic value. I can handle drugs. I've never had a problem.

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

People say the media is feeding the public's hunger for celebrity news, but that's the drug pusher's mentality. I don't think anybody would be pining for news about Angelina Jolie's babies if it weren't being given to them in the first place.