“I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go.”Patti Smith Source: Early Work, 1970-1979
“I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art led him to the devil, and sex kept him with the devil.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they’re gone?”Patti Smith M TrainSource: M Train
“I believe in movement. I believe in that lighthearted balloon, the world. I believe in midnight and the hour of noon. But what else do I believe in? Sometimes everything. Sometimes nothing. It fluctuates like light flitting over a pond.”Patti Smith M TrainSource: M Train
“We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids