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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.

Patti Smith

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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Give Horoscope Mother Year
I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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Always Consider Myself Writer
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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Artist Hungered Proof Stuff
I was never a singer, I can’t play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn’t have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.
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Frustration Rock Star
I’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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Imagination People Writing
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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Hand People Vision
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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Loneliness Space Understood
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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Fun Go Inspirational Letting
The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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Book Inspired Two
All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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Children Want Wonderful
The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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Darkness Dream Sorrow
Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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Adventure Design Fate
Everybody’s got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock’n’roll, political activismand it’s got to be done over and over again. It’s like eating: you can’t say,’Oh, I ate yesterday’.You have to eat again.
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Political Rock Yesterday
With 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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Collaborator Lost Photograph
I felt alien my whole life but I didn’t feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
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Alien Gender People
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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Couple Father Loss

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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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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