The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Comparing yourself to the people like you, comparing yourself to the people who aren't like you, looking at how many records you've… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
It is terrifying to people when women step up and start owning the story that they have not owned. And I'm seeing… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
The cool thing too, as you get older, you get way better at identifying who's an ally and who isn't. And who… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is, ‘How do we make people pay for music?’ What if… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
People had this idea about becoming rock stars packing stadiums instead of having the goal of becoming what musicians used to be… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
When I find myself having to share a meal with someone who simply wants to complain about the world, I almost feel… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I never wanted to grow a thicker skin; I felt a real sense of pride in my thin skin, and in a… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
It's fine for people to say, "If you can't stand the heat and if you can't stand the criticism, then just don't… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
There's a part of me that is really, really happy with all of my success lately because of what it can get… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I feel like if I were to play the game completely and just get myself in a giant bottle of nail polish… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I've always felt like an outsider across the board, since day one. The challenge has been to simply not pay attention to… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure.… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I have used Twitter for so many things, from places to stay, places to go, things to do, things I need, medical… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Meditation, especially for people who dont know very much about it and think its this very hippy dippy thing, can really be… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
What I have found is, so much of that is like a Chinese finger trap: the more you play to the dark,… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
All of my music, my stage show, my personality, my blog, my twitter feed, anything that's made me me, and a huge… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
What I have found is, so much of that is like a Chinese finger trap: the more you play to the dark, the more… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share
In some way, my fundamental feeling about music is that it's impossible to put a price tag on it. Human beings made music before… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share
Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share
I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running my band… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share
Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share
There's a part of me that is really, really happy with all of my success lately because of what it can get me and… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share
I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share
The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share
I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything else -… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share
I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being told what… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share
I've always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn't have at least half a dozen… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share
