Patti Smith
To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
I despair of contemporary popular music. I find it grossly artificial. If I were of a harsher nature I would also note that it is prosaic, witless, phony, over-produced, derivative, and ugly. Fortunately, I'm not of a harsher nature.
Because I make guitars and basses, I find myself often in the company of young musicians. These men and women are of no…