I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?"
Patti SmithI'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.
Patti SmithI feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.
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 SmithWhat I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and the most open form created by our generation. The cool thing about it is that you get the power, you get the rhythm; you can be taken over sexually, you can be taken over cerebrally; it's great to look at - it's a package deal.
Patti Smith