#co

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. ↗

— Patti Smith

#daughter #grow #grow up #heavy #i

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer. ↗

— Patti Smith

#craft #day #developing #every #every day

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy. ↗

— Patti Smith

#embrace #happy #i #i do #people

I've always thrived on the encouragement of others. ↗

— Patti Smith

#encouragement #i #others #thrived

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer. ↗

— Patti Smith

#better #better singer #could #i #regrets

Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day. ↗

— Patti Smith

#because #concert #day #destroyed #every

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication. ↗

— Patti Smith

#coming #communication #engaged #hollywood #materialistic

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. ↗

— Patti Smith

#course #i #jo #like #little

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

#am #around #articulate #common #common sense

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. ↗

— Patti Smith

#had #hendrix #i #jim #jimi