There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist… — 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 you will get trapped in the dark, and if you just play to the light and focus on the people that don't misunderstand you and focus on the audience that does celebrate you and focus on… — 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 Image
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 Image
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running my band and touring and making posters and practicing with my band and working on my vocals, but I didn't spend a large pie chart of my time sifting through criticism as well, and nowadays I do, and… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share
Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time. — 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 me and what it can buy me in the fact that my music will hopefully reach more people. But it also makes me a little bit miserable because the minute the spotlight is on you, people start flinging… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 - feminism and climate change, feminism and poverty, feminism and hunger - and it was almost like I was born again and started walking down the street and was like, "Oh, my God, there are women everywhere!… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share
