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I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.Collection: Patti
If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.Collection: Patti
You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.Collection: Patti
I'd just make sure with anything I say I know what I'm talking about.Collection: Patti
I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.Collection: Patti
The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.Collection: Patti
My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.Collection: Patti
My son and daughter lost their father quite young, so we keep him present with us. It's just a daily practice.Collection: Patti
I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.Collection: Patti
People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.Collection: Patti
When I was young, I was offered my first recording contract in 1971 and was offered quite a bit of money if I would change my character and be a '70s version of Cher.Collection: Patti
I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.Collection: Patti
I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.Collection: Patti
I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.Collection: Patti
My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly. So I came to New York for two reasons: to find my own kin and also to get a job. And that's what I came to New York for in '67.Collection: Patti
I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.Collection: Patti
I was in musical comedy. And I did very well, but the memorization killed me. I'm not good at memorizing, and it gave me a lot of anxiety. I hated the makeup. I hated all that pancake makeup. I didn't really like dressing for parts.Collection: Patti
Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.Collection: Patti
Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.Collection: Patti
Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'Collection: Patti
Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.Collection: Patti
Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.Collection: Patti
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.Collection: Patti
I was a sickly child, not very strong physically. I wasn't really the greatest in school. I didn't really excel in anything particularly. But I was happy with who I was.Collection: Patti
I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.Collection: Patti
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.Collection: Patti
I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.Collection: Patti
Christianity made us think there's one heaven.Collection: Patti
When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.Collection: Patti
Robert Mapplethorpe, I met in 1967. He was a student at Pratt, though even as a student a fully formed artist. We went through many things in our life together. He became my loved one, then my best friend.Collection: Patti
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.Collection: Patti
I'm not a very analytical person.Collection: Patti
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.Collection: Patti
I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William Blake wrote for the Christ child, and I set it to music, and the Vatican orchestra played the music.Collection: Patti
'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.Collection: Patti
The thing is that any sophistication I have, aesthetically, comes from 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar.' In the '60s, I never missed an issue, even if I had to steal to get them.Collection: Patti
I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.Collection: Patti
When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.Collection: Patti
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.Collection: Patti
I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.Collection: Patti
In the '60s, I used to love rock magazines; I'd cut out pictures of Bob Dylan and John Lennon.Collection: Patti
There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.Collection: Patti
Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.Collection: Patti
When my father, Ronald Reagan, was running for president in 1980, my mother, Nancy, traveled with him on the campaign trail, but she did not give speeches or even many interviews. She never stood in front of a group of reporters and expounded on her views and opinions.Collection: Patti
Texas governor Rick Perry's wife, Anita, has come out slugging in her glittering leopard-print jacket against what she sees as the unfair treatment of her husband. She tearfully said that he has been 'brutalized' for his faith.Collection: Patti
Callista Gingrich has, I suspect, given Newt's advisers a giant headache. She's a constant presence at her husband's side - and a constant reminder of his acknowledged infidelity. Newt cheated on his second wife with Callista, a woman 23 years his junior.Collection: Patti