The reason we did 'Land of a Thousand Dances' and 'Gloria' on 'Horses' was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn't understand that I could write my own. I didn't realize that you could use those chords a million times.
From Patti Smith
When I was a child, I was certain that I could remember what it was like to live on Venus; I could remember what it was like to live in the American Plains. I could remember. And it's ancient memory. We all have it. It's just that some of us access it more than others.
I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.
When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.
I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.
Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.
I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.
When I was young, I was offered my first recording contract in 1971 and was offered quite a bit of money if I would change my character and be a '70s version of Cher.
No matter what anybody thinks about any of them, every record I've done has been done with the same amount of care, anguish, pain, suffering, and joy.
We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.
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