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All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.
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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As a child I was such an intense daydreamer I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come back. They were really worried that I had some kind of catatonia or something because I would go so far out. Because all I wanted to do was talk to god as a child.
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I wish I could just project everything on the paper.
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I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.
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Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
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Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time that I wonder if we've lost the ability to daydream.
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I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.
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When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: Away in the Manger, William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.
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I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, Where's my car?
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I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.
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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.
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I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
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Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.
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Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.
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My sunglasses are like my guitar.
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If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.
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One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.
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My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.
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