870 Quotes by Patti Smith

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.

I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying painting ran its course after the Renaissance. Punk is an idea. It's freedom. And it'll be around 200 years from now for the people who want it.

We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine - My sins are my own, they belong to me.

I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.