Amanda Palmer Quotes

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

Thank God my best friend's a therapist.

We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create, their audiences need to step up and directly support them.

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

The minute I spend any energy defending myself, explaining myself, or in the worst case scenario, trying to please those who are criticizing me, I will, you know, just fall off a cliff.

Everyone I know shares toothbrushes. Everyone I know sleeps on each other's floor. Everyone I know uses what they've got and shares what they've got.

You know, there are so many snarky angry critics out there who are just sort of looking to tear down whoever is getting talked about.

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

Take on the pain and wear it as a shirt.

I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

I feel an extraordinary amount of sympathy for anybody working at a major label right now because their lives are over.

I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.

It’s not easy to ask… asking makes you vulnerable.

Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again.

It is terrifying to people when women step up and start owning the story that they have not owned. And I'm seeing so much of this, and it is a seismic shift.

I am bigger on the inside But you have to come inside to see me

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.

If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.

I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays.

If I were a guy, it would be, you know, just a different set of problems I have to carry along.

How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.

We are human and our nature is to air...

I kind of rely on my artist friends to make my physical music worth buying by having them all come together and create beautiful artwork that everyone is gonna want to own to support my record.

I feel like I've gotten to the point in my career and in my life where I can allow myself to write whatever comes into my head and not judge it too harshly.

I don't try to make anybody outside happy.

If I simply do what I've always done, it's never failed me.

I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.

One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and being looked at, being assessed for really superficial stuff.

I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.

Nobody ever sees me. Thank you.

The pattern's laid out on the bedWith dozens of colors of threadBut you've got the needleI guess that's the point in the end