870 Quotes by Patti Smith

I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through – music and friends.

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.

If you don’t have what you need, just rock with what you’ve got!

I started resenting how much art robs from life. I’d go to a party and I couldn’t enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.

I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, “You can’t be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on.” It was a trauma.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one’s finest work.

I’m an artist. I’m interested in how art gets made.

Well, I’m not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I’m performing, that’s what I’m doing. If I’m not, I don’t long for it. I don’t need the approval of an audience, or applause.

My public life was so demanding that I wasn’t doing the things that I deemed the most important.