Smith was raised a Jehovah's Witness and had a strong religious upbringing and a Biblical education. She left organized religion as a teenager, however, because she felt it was too confining. In response to this experience, she wrote the line, "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine", in her cover version of " Gloria" by Them. [123] She has described having an avid interest in Tibetan Buddhism around the age of 11 or 12, saying "I fell in love with Tibet because their essential mission was to keep a continual stream of prayer," but that as an adult she sees clear parallels between different forms of religion and has concluded that religious dogmas are "...man-made laws that you can either decide to abide by or not." [26] Thompson, Dave (2011). Dancing Barefoot: The Patti Smith Story. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-569-76325-4. Manson, Shirley (April 15, 2004). "The Immortals: The First Fifty". Rolling Stone. No.946. Archived from the original on March 16, 2006 . Retrieved February 4, 2008. The environment is his number one preoccupation’ … with the Dalai Lama at the Glastonbury festival in 2015. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters

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In 2015, Smith appeared with Nader, spoke and performed the songs "Wing" and "People Have the Power" during the American Museum of Tort Law convocation ceremony in Winsted, Connecticut. [111] In 2016, Smith spoke, read poetry, and performed several songs along with her daughter Jesse at Nader's Breaking Through Power conference at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. [112]Mapplethorpe's photographs of Smith became the covers for Smith's albums, and they remained lifelong friends until Mapplethorpe's death in 1989. [19] Smith's book and album The Coral Sea is an homage to Mapplethorpe and Just Kids tells the story of their relationship. She also wrote essays for several of Mapplethorpe's books, including one, at Mapplethorpe's request, for his posthumous Flowers. [20] Smith, Patti (2010). Just Kids (EPubed.). New York City: HarperCollins. p.13. ISBN 978-0-06-200844-2.

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Murray, Noel (May 28, 2015). "60 minutes of music that sum up art-punk pioneers Wire". The A.V. Club . Retrieved October 28, 2015.

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Following the death of her husband in 1994, Smith began devoting time to what she terms "pure photography", a method of capturing still objects without using a flash. [57] In 2011, Smith announced the first museum exhibition of her photography in the U.S., Camera Solo. She named the project after a sign she saw in the abode of Pope Celestine V, which translates as "a room of one's own", and which Smith felt best described her solitary method of photography. [57] The exhibition featured artifacts that were everyday items or places of significance to artists Smith admires, including Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, John Keats, and William Blake. In February 2012, she was a guest at the Sanremo Music Festival. [58] By turns allegorical, metaphysical, fictional and factual, Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to give a life to writing. A master of poetic innovation, Smith takes her style to the next level in this slim volume.”—Katherine Cooper, Hyperallergic A triptych of compact, heartfelt essays on discovery, solitude and writing."--Darragh McManus, Irish Independent

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Robertson, Jessica (2007). "Exclusive Interview with Patti Smith". Spinner. AOL. Archived from the original on May 16, 2007 . Retrieved February 4, 2008. McNeil, Legs; Gillian McCain (May 9, 2006). Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-4264-1.

Smith was the subject of a 2008 documentary film by Steven Sebring, Patti Smith: Dream of Life. [44] A live album by Smith and Kevin Shields, The Coral Sea, was released in July 2008. On September 10, 2009, after a week of smaller events and exhibitions in Florence, Smith played an open-air concert at Piazza Santa Croce, commemorating her performance in the same city 30 years earlier. [45] She contributed the introduction to Jessica Lange's book 50 Photographs, published in 2009. [46] 2010–present [ edit ] Walters, John (February 18, 2016). "Philip Glass Menagerie: The Composer on 26 Years of the Tibet House Benefit Concert". Newsweek . Retrieved April 1, 2019.