Patti Smith, 79, says aging hasn’t slowed her down.Instead, it’s made her more persistent to keep creating for as long as she can.
During an appearance on Monday’s episode of “Talk Easy with sam Fragoso,” the punk icon spoke about her decadeslong career and how aging has sharpened her awareness of time.
“I’m going to be 79 years old. You know, my mother only lived to be 82 and suddenly, chronology has a different meaning,” Smith told podcast host Sam Fragoso. Smith turned 79 on December 30.
Smith said she “never thought a whole lot” about how much time she had left, but that’s changed in recent years.
“Because I’ve always sort of been a youngish person and always, you know, survived whatever came up. but you start thinking about it, you know, not intentionally, but you know, when I think about it, in just a little over a year, I’ll be 80 years old. That’s a number,” Smith said.
“And I have so much to do and so many things I want to do, so many things I want to write,” she said.
Smith added that she sometimes experiences feelings that are “a little dark.”
“Sometimes we feel disenfranchised, even from ourselves, but we come back like a boomerang,” she said.
