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Arts | Mar 8, 2013 | 5:44

Patti Smith: a disciplined artist

The punk pioneer, award-winning writer and noted photographer talks to CBC's Deana Sumanac about her multi-hyphenate status and expressing different sides of herself through her music and art.

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