Great Patti Smith Quote

"I used to have this, this idea, that I was sort of like, part of, like, this alien race that were part Venus and part American Indian. Now this sounds kind of funny now, but I was very serious about it as a child. [Laugh.] I had a whole cosmology and a whole universe, formed around these thoughts. But, I definitely didn't feel at home on the planet. I felt much more at home when I'd read books about the Aztecs, or about, or if I'd read stories about aliens on other planets. Or I just, I didn't really feel like I belonged... Those private thoughts I had, were part of my creative energy, or the complexity of my mind, but I wasn't a disturbed child, I was just, a little off-beat, I guess." 

-Patti Smith, being interviewed on NPR