I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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 think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.
Patti SmithThe film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the director and the editor are both gifted and both fine human beings.
Patti Smith