Quotes By Patti Smith

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

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

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.