Amanda Palmer

How do we let people pay for music?

— Amanda Palmer

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

— Amanda Palmer

I hate being ignored.

— Amanda Palmer

Take on the pain and wear it as a shirt.

— Amanda Palmer

Nobody ever sees me. Thank you.

— Amanda Palmer

Thank God my best friend's a therapist.

— Amanda Palmer

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

— Amanda Palmer

I get really fantastic results when I just get out of my own way.

— Amanda Palmer

I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'

— Amanda Palmer

When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

— Amanda Palmer

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

— Amanda Palmer

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

— Amanda Palmer

Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love.

— Amanda Palmer

Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.

— Amanda Palmer

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

— Amanda Palmer

One day u say u miss me the next u say I love u I so dume to say I love u…

— Amanda Palmer

I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through…

— Amanda Palmer

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

— Amanda Palmer

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

— Amanda Palmer

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

— Amanda Palmer

Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our…

— Amanda Palmer

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

— Amanda Palmer

“You can’t ask authentically and gracefully without truly being able to accept “No” for an answer. Because if you’re not truly willing…

— Amanda Palmer

I feel that part of my life's artwork is creatively dealing with all this negativity and anger and rage and hatred coming…

— Amanda Palmer

If you're going to make work and you're going to write and you're going to put yourself out there and perform, you…

— Amanda Palmer

Neil Gaiman swooped into my life though another friend, Jason Webley, who knew we were fans of each other's work and introduced…

— Amanda Palmer

My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything…

— Amanda Palmer

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

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like Im…

— Amanda Palmer

“The Art of Asking is a book about cultivating trust and getting as close as possible to love, vulnerability, and connection. Uncomfortably…

— Amanda Palmer

American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure.…

— Amanda Palmer

I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything…

— Amanda Palmer

I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running…

— Amanda Palmer

When I find myself having to share a meal with someone who simply wants to complain about the world, I almost feel…

— Amanda Palmer

I never wanted to grow a thicker skin; I felt a real sense of pride in my thin skin, and in a…

— Amanda Palmer

There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting…

— Amanda Palmer

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

I wanted to feel like I could extend someone else's joy and not crush it, and that is the giant paradox nowadays…

— Amanda Palmer

I don't try to make anybody outside happy.

— Amanda Palmer

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

— Amanda Palmer