I always wear the same thing onstage.

- Patti Smith

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

- Patti Smith

I've always considered myself a writer.

- Patti Smith

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

- Patti Smith

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

- Patti Smith

The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

- Patti Smith

Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, you…

- Patti Smith

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

- Patti Smith

If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!

- Patti Smith