I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
PATTI SMITHI think it’s important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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I think it’s important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.
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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.
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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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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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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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People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone’s vision, because in the end, that’s what you got: your clay in someone else’s hands.
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Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.
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I’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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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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My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn’t come anymore, but I had his support.
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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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