Patti Smith Quotes - Page 11

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

I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.

When I perform, I always opt for communication with God, and in pursuit of communicating with God, you can enter some very dangerous territory. I also have come to realize that total communication with God is physical death.

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.

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.

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.

Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.

All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

I've always considered myself a writer.

The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.

I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.

I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people.

I hated the makeup. I hated all that pancake makeup. I didn't really like dressing for parts.

I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.

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

I always wear the same thing onstage.

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.