Patti Smith on Patti Smith

From the moment Patti Smith burst onto the scene, chanting "Jesus died for somebody''s sins, but not mine," the irreverent opening line to Horses, her 1975 debut album, the punk movement had found its dissident intellectual voice. Yet outside the recording studio—Smith has released eleven studio albums—the punk poet laureate has been perhaps just as revelatory and rhapsodic in interviews, deliveri...