I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through - music and friends.
Patti SmithMy mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.
Patti SmithI like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.
Patti SmithIt got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)
Patti SmithI didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.
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