I’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
PATTI SMITHEven as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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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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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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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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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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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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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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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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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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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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I’m okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I’ll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I’m in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
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Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)
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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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