870 Quotes by Patti Smith

If your label won’t let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

I hate to be enclosed. I don’t like bathroom doors – I don’t shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.

Closure is an illusion, the winking of the eye of a storm. Nothing is completely resolved in life, nothing is perfect. The important thing is to keep living because only by living can you see what happens next.” – on Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ in The New York Times.

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.

I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn’t even give me the time of day.

I climb the side of a volcano carved from ice, heat drawn from the well of devotion that is the female heart.

It’s not that I have compromised or anything, but it’s always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I’m not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.

I was never going to become anything but myself, that i was of the clan of Peter Pan and we did not grow up.

May the world’s small things fill her with delight.