More From Patti Smith
- "When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock ‘n’ roll was asleep."
- "I’m not saying I wasn’t flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business."
- "My mom loved rock ‘n roll. My father hated it. We couldn’t play it when he was around."
More In Power
- "Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted."― Dee Dee Myers
- "All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice."― Theodore Bikel
- "The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."― Theodor Adorno