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
When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it. — 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 Image
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… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
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… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
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 -… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
