I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I don't. Like, I believe in the Rolling Stones but not in the Dave Clark Five. There's nothing philosophic about it. Whenever I'm linked with a movement, it pisses me off.
Patti SmithI think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.
Patti SmithGood news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
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 Smith