#iv

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family. ↗

— Patti Smith

#another #any #anybody #because #childhood

I never thought I was gonna live to 30. ↗

— Patti Smith

#i #live #never #thought

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

— Patti Smith

#encouragement #i #others #thrived

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. ↗

— Patti Smith

#china #cup #drink #english #father

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant. ↗

— Patti Smith

#insight #intelligent #kind #like #people

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons. ↗

— Patti Smith

#around #books #children #five #four

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap. ↗

— Robert Smith

#edge #i #i think #living #myth

I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway. ↗

— Robert Smith

#anyway #because #bother #cure #division

God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight. ↗

— Samantha Smith

#god #live #made #peace #together

I like to cover news when it happens, not five years later. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#five #happens #i #later #like