My sunglasses are like my guitar.
— Patti Smith
Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.
I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.
I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
My mother answers all my fan mail.
Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.
I never thought I was gonna live to 30.
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
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've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
I like gettin' old.
I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
