Patti Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.”

“People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.”

“I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.”

“My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.”

“As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.”

“Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.”

“My mother answers all my fan mail.”

“An artist wears his work in place of wounds.”

“Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.”

“I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.”