“My mother answers all my fan mail.” — Patti Smith Quote

“My mother answers all my fan mail.”

“My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.”

“In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.”

“Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.”

“A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.”

“I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith.”