with Sam Shepard
"At each stage of her life Smith managed to align herself with a man whose interests reflected her own. Now that she was attempting to combine music and writing, Shepard was an ideal partner, for not only did he dream of being a rock and roll star himself, he also approached his plays almost as improvisational jazz; he was less interested in plot and characterization than in convulsive bursts of imagery.. He encouraged Smith to do lyrics for his play The Mad Dog Blues, while she urged him to write the prose poems that later appeared in Hawk Moon, which he dedicated to her. 'Sam loved my writing more than anyone I ever knew,' Smith explained. 'He wasn't so supportive of some of the other things I was doing, like my singing and stuff, but he made me value myself as a writer.'"
-- from Mapplethorpe: A Biography
"At each stage of her life Smith managed to align herself with a man whose interests reflected her own. Now that she was attempting to combine music and writing, Shepard was an ideal partner, for not only did he dream of being a rock and roll star himself, he also approached his plays almost as improvisational jazz; he was less interested in plot and characterization than in convulsive bursts of imagery.. He encouraged Smith to do lyrics for his play The Mad Dog Blues, while she urged him to write the prose poems that later appeared in Hawk Moon, which he dedicated to her. 'Sam loved my writing more than anyone I ever knew,' Smith explained. 'He wasn't so supportive of some of the other things I was doing, like my singing and stuff, but he made me value myself as a writer.'"
-- from Mapplethorpe: A Biography
