The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.
From Patti Smith
I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.
People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
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