Patti Smith 1: lot of guts back then.

She smiles gently. "I guess I had a lot of guts back then; I thought that this was my mission." Rock'n'roll, she claims, was something she was "just gonna do for a little while and then get back to work". Work, to Smith, meant writing and painting, the ambitions she had held growing up in New Jersey. "And somehow I got drawn in to it and wound up making a record."

Friday January 19, 2007
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