帕特丽夏·李·史密斯是美国歌手、作曲家、音乐家、作家和诗人，1975年她的首张专辑《马》成为纽约朋克摇滚运动的一个有影响力的组成部分。
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.
我父母很有人情味，但我们住的地方不是世界的文化中心。几乎没有。所以我来纽约有两个原因：一是找自己的亲戚，二是找工作。这就是我67年来纽约的目的。
Robert Mapplethorpe asked me to write our story the day before he died. I had never written a book of nonfiction, and so it took me almost two decades to write that book.
罗伯特·马普雷索普在他死前一天让我写我们的故事。我从来没有写过一本非小说类的书，所以写这本书花了我将近二十年的时间。
I love playing the Fillmore. I love the walk from the hotel and climbing up those old, iron stairs that lead to the stage. I imagine Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix and the Doors and all those other great bands climbing those same stairs.
我喜欢玩菲尔莫。我喜欢从酒店走出来，爬上那些通往舞台的旧铁楼梯。我想象杰瑞·加西亚、吉米·亨德里克斯和《门》以及其他所有伟大的乐队都在爬同样的楼梯。
The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.
创造冲动的时刻就是艺术家给你的。你看一只波洛克，它不能给你自己画这样的工具，但是在做这件工作时，波洛克和你分享了一个创造性冲动的时刻，驱使他去做那件工作。
The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.
问题是，担心那些看起来走错了路的人并不不酷。自我毁灭一点也不酷。
For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
每年圣诞节，我妈妈都会给我一些便宜的小日记，告诉我你的星座，并为每一天提供一个小空白时段。
I remember when the Bic pen was controversial. They came from France. They were cheap, and when one was out of ink, you threw it away; you didn't dip it into more ink.
我记得Bic笔有争议的时候。他们来自法国。它们很便宜，当一个墨水用完了，你就把它扔掉；你没有把它沾到更多的墨水里。
I'm always writing. And, I mean, I always counsel people when they call me a musician: I really do not have the skills of a musician. I really don't think like a musician, though I love music and I perform and sing.
我一直在写作。我的意思是，当人们叫我音乐家时，我总是给他们提供建议：我真的没有音乐家的技能。我真的不像一个音乐家那样思考，虽然我喜欢音乐，我表演和唱歌。