If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
Patti SmithI wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.
Patti SmithIn 1974, when I started working with the material that became Horses, a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
Patti Smith