I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust. Patti Smith More Quotes by Patti Smith More Quotes From Patti Smith A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child. Patti Smith timeless birth children What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had. Patti Smith ethics work-ethic artist I can't bear working with a click track, we're not click track people. But for "Mercy Is ..." we all got in one mind because the song is delicate; it's not a song that showcases a vocal or some virtuoso. Patti Smith track song people Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me. Patti Smith find-me ifs I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it. Patti Smith mother want book There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work. Patti Smith my-favorite photographer beautiful He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe) Patti Smith found easy I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else. Patti Smith jersey library culture What helps me is watching other people negotiate loss. I think about how we dropped a bomb on people in Hiroshima and 150,000 people were killed in one night. Those people had to mourn and they had to rebuild their city right away. Patti Smith loss night thinking I'm not really a nostalgic person. Patti Smith nostalgic persons I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine. Patti Smith imagination writing people I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss. Patti Smith mother loss men In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot. Patti Smith live-life nurse children I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it. Patti Smith prose written havens I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out. Patti Smith design careers thinking I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking. Patti Smith growing-up girl kids What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong. Patti Smith common-sense views trying I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a man inside... being a boy was just cooler. Patti Smith girl boys kids I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love. Patti Smith wasting-my-time my-time waste My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games. Patti Smith plato games father
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