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Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.

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I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock 'n' roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.

Interested, Political, Rock N Roll, Rocks, Roll

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

60Th Birthday, Age, Birthday, Rage, Time, Tried

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

Book, Dirty, Good, Think, Thinking

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

Book, Oregon, Portland, Town

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.

Everything, New Year, Produced, Read, Turns, Yearning

With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.

Collaborator, Collaborators, Lost, Photograph, Robert

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

Collaborate, Impulse, Schizophrenic, Solitude, Writing

I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in science; and Michelangelo was dabbling in poetry. Both of them were painters and sculptors but they also involved themselves with architecture. I honestly don't know what happened in the '60s and '70s. If you sang rock and roll in America at that time or were involved in expressing yourself through music like that, then many thought you couldn't possibly be an artist. That thinking is archaic.

America, Artist, Involved, Michelangelo, Renaissance, Thinking

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.

Book, Books, Children, Performing, Stopped, Years

I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking photographs. I can go on the road and perform. But the most important thing for me is writing, and when I hit those walls, it's painful.

Important, Perform, Photographs, Wall, Writing

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.

Calmed, Everywhere, God, Sea

Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.

Abandon, Children, Sometimes

Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

Crawl, Defeated, Path, Pursue, Twisted, Unanswered Questions

I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, "You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on. " It was a trauma.

Girl, Involved, Mother, Wrestling

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

Amateurish, Appease, Business, Flawed, Music Business

Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.

Dylan, Images, Rocks, Spiritual, Stars

Steven [Sebring] was documenting me as a widow with two children, going from 50 to 60 years old. My focus, during that time, was to rediscover myself, stay healthy, take care of my kids and reestablish a relationship with the people.

Care, Children, Kids, Rediscover, Take, Years

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

Become, Daughter, Maybe, Mother, Old, Stars

I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need.

House, Yards, Needs, Overgrown, Wonderful

I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

Aliens, Gender, Life, People, Whole

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