870 Quotes by Patti Smith

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

I am still a very optimistic person. I continue to do work with joy.

Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.

I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.