Patti Smith Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Race, Years

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

• I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Sibling, Childhood

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

• I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

  Patti Smith

  Book, Childhood, World

  "The life and deaths of Patti Smith". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

• Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Artist, Paris

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