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Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
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I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.
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I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation. But I also realize that in order to create the art, you have to stay, you can't go too far.
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Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.
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I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.
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Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.
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I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
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Your soul was like a network of spittle.
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