Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer
Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer, sometimes known as Amanda Fucking Palmer, is an American singer-songwriter who first rose to prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls. She has had a successful solo career, is also one-half of the duo Evelyn Evelyn, and is the lead singer and songwriter of Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth30 April 1976
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Amanda Palmer quotes about
I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.
You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.
Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.
Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.
I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.
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 the people who aren't trying to tear you down, all that other stuff eventually erases itself because it has nothing to feed on.
Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love.
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.
The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.
Thank God my best friend's a therapist.
The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like Im in the middle of a battlefield.
If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.
When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.