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 am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur."
- "I’m not saying I wasn’t flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business."
More In Age
- "Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly."― Linus Pauling
- "No lie ever reaches old age."― Sophocles
- "I was doing a children’s book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I’d been feeling – and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves."― Jamie Lee Curtis