As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't do that with men - nobody says Picasso, the male artist. Curators call me up and say, "We want your work to be in a show about women artists," and I'm like, why? For Christ's sake, do we have to attach a gender onto everything?
Patti SmithLife is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
Patti SmithAngel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?
Patti Smith