Patti Smith Net Worth

Patti Smith's Quotes

• [on friendship] Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
• [on her tribute to Amy Winehouse with the song, "This is the Girl"] It was done really lovingly. As soon as I heard about when she died, I sat down and wrote her a little poem and my bass player wrote a piece of music that resonated the poem. It is a song I wish we never had to write.
• [on Johnny Depp] I think, at heart, he is a musician. I've never really seen him without a guitar. He keeps two or three guitars with him most of the time. Sometimes, on a long drive, he'll have one in the car. That is how devoted to music he is.
• Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
• I wasn't writing my own songs yet, so I was using other people's songs as a vehicle. The reason we did "Land of a Thousand Dances" and "Gloria" on "Horses" was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs but I didn't understand that I could write my own. I didn't realize that you could use those chords a million times.

Interesting Facts about Patti Smith

1. Widow of MC5 guitarist Fred 'Sonic' Smith.
2. Poet and punk musician.
3. Was the first performer to sell out a poetry recital at New York's CBGB's music club.
4. Was the inspiration for Gilda Radner's character Candy Slice on Saturday Night Live (1975).
5. Ranked #15 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
6. Husband Fred 'Sonic' Smith died of heart failure in 1994, at the age of 45 years.
7. Gave birth to her son Jackson Smith in 1982 and her daughter Jesse Smith in 1987.
8. Collaborated on a soundtrack song from Wim Wenders' film, Until the End of the World (1991) (US title: "Until the End of the World").
9. Husband Fred 'Sonic' Smith broke a decade-long hiatus from music to co-produce her comeback album, "Dream of Life".
10. She and husband, Fred 'Sonic' Smith, lived in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, an eastern suburb of Detroit, during their married years from 1980 to his death in 1994.
11. She was voted the 47th Greatest Artist in Rock 'n' Roll by Rolling Stone.
12. Former girlfriend of controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
13. Her song "About a Boy" is a tribute to late Nirvana vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Kurt Cobain, who wrote a song called "About a Girl".
14. Graduated from Deptford Township High School (1964).
15. Born to a Jehovah's Witness mother, she grew up in Woodbury, New Jersey.
16. Was romantically linked to Allen Lanier before marrying Fred 'Sonic' Smith.
17. Active supporter of the US Green Party.
18. Won the National Book Award in 2010 for her memoir, "Just Kids", which she plans on adapting into a screenplay. It discusses her whole life, but specially focuses on her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe.
19. She will appear in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on 7 April 2005 as part of a program entitled "The Dark and the Light: An Evening of Spoken Word and Music Dedicated to Diane Arbus." This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Diane Arbus Revelations." [April 2005]
20. Former girlfriend of Actor, Screenwriter, & ex-drummer, Sam Shepard in 1971 when they co-wrote & acted in a play "Cowboy Mouth" at the American Place Theatre, New York City.