Over at Cuepoint, an oral history of punk palace CBGB's heyday of the mid-to-late 1970s, starring members of the Ramones, Blondie, The Voidoids, and The Miamis, and the inimitable Patti Smith. Also at Cuepoint today, Smith talks with veteran music writer Alan Light.
Here's Patti:
I'm not a celebrity, I'm a worker. I've always worked. I was working before people read anything about me, and the day they stopped reading about me, I was doing even more work. And the idea that if you're a mother, you're not doing anything—it's the hardest job there is, being a mother or father requires great sacrifice, discipline, selflessness, and to think that we weren't doing anything while we were raising a son or daughter is appalling. It makes me understand why some human beings question their worth if they're not making a huge amount of money or aren't famous, and that's not right.
