Dua Lipa admires her writing. Taylor Swift referenced her in her track The Tortured Poets Department, singing: "You're not Dylan Thomas, I'm not Patti Smith".
Fifty years after Smith released her swaggering, era-defining album, Horses, she is back on the road and also publishing a new memoir, titled Bread of Angels.
"The idea of the book came to me in a dream," Patti Smith tells me.
It's a fantastic read - a portrait of an artist who was at the heart of New York's counter-cultural scene in the 1970s. Smith was rubbing shoulders with Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and the poet William Burroughs.
During that heady period, she was performing at the legendary CBGBs (though the club "wasn't legendary yet… it was completely unknown" she tells me).
