More from Patti Smith

  1. 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 i…
  2. I look at these kids, you know, and I could be their mother, their mistress, their older woman. Some of the kids at the concerts are 15.
  3. I can't say I was a Rasta but I went through a period when I was studying all aspects of Rastafarianism, including smoking a lot of pot whi…
  4. I only planned it out till I was 28. I figured at 28, the black dress, the gutter in Paris, I had it - like a B movie of Piaf.
  5. I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
  6. 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…
  7. Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
  8. Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

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