Patti Smith Quotes

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

I am sorry for what has happened and I know that I need some help.

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to.

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Singing is a gift.

There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let down and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose, and with gratitude to those who stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life.

My motivation comes from the plays I didn't make.

I've done things that weren't good, you know, but I made up for my mistakes.

I could have given more and I'm sorry about how it all ended, but I still look back on my time in Germany positively.

I'm a piano player and singer who can't play piano very well or sing very well. That isn't a recipe for success. I have to get better.

In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying "I'm sorry," is that there's so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.

I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.

I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.

I have not been the witness I wanted to be.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.

I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.

With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.

There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

I couldn't help what I'd done before I learned it was wrong. I could only do better in the future.