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.
I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.
I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.
For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, "Don't film me anymore," [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them; he just respected their wishes.
I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
I was always trying to pick guys up. I'd ask guys out and stuff like that. I had no pride. I was the biggest lurch at dances, waiting for the ladies' choice. I'd lunge at my prey like a baby wolf.
I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.
I always hope that young people will think for themselves and also most importantly, understand that they should judge themselves on their own merit, their good deeds, however simple, to not judge themselves by what they have materially, by what other people think of them, through social media.
In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos - the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?
I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection
I'm not really a nostalgic person.
Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.
I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.
I've always considered myself a writer.
I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.
The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.
An artist wears his work in place of wounds.
If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.
Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a strong road crew who are devoted and believe in you and protect you, you're totally naked.
I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.