Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
PATTI SMITHWith the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn’t know who to work with.
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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To be an artist – actually, to be a human being in these times – it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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I’ve lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.
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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.
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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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I don’t know why, the very first word on my very first record is ‘Jesus.’ I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.
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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.
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I’m from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.
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I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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