I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
PATTI SMITHTo 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.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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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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I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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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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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’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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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 was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late ’50s and early ’60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.
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Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
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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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