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
The drums are a lot more integrated into the fabric of the songwriting instead of just layered on top, like it was when we first met.
I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.
One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and being looked at, being assessed for really superficial stuff.
I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.
I get really fantastic results when I just get out of my own way.
All of The Dresden Dolls upcoming scheduled appearances at European Festivals have been cancelled.
You know, there are so many snarky angry critics out there who are just sort of looking to tear down whoever is getting talked about.
How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.
I nurture my close relationships like priceless lamps. That's part of why the job itself is inherently difficult and kind of a paradox, because you're out there touring and traveling and going a million miles a minute, but the things that are keeping you steady and stable can be really hard to nurture when you're going fast, and your relationships, which are the number one thing that help me through.
I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral hippie mumu at 37, show up at 47 in see-through latex, and pose semi-naked, like Keith & co, on the cover of Rolling Stone at 57 and be APPLAUDED for being so comfortable with her body.
The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
Thank God my best friend's a therapist.
When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.
There was a dance that everyone was doing that was heavily skewed with the power in one direction, but the dance was basically working, and then the dance got really disrupted with the first wave of feminism, and nobody found their footing yet - not the guys, not the women.