Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.
Patti SmithI 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 SmithWhen I perform, I always opt for communication with God, and in pursuit of communicating with God, you can enter some very dangerous territory. I also have come to realize that total communication with God is physical death.
Patti SmithThe way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.
Patti Smith