Patti Smith
  • Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.

  • My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

  • I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

  • When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

  • I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.