Amanda Palmer Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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 - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.”

“I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.”

“I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.”

“If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.”

“Thank God my best friend's a therapist.”

“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 they made a lot of other things, including tools.”

“I've been in a recording studio enough times to know that it is not the best place to multitask. Doing a couple of takes of a song and running out to check your email to talk to someone about video production really is not good.”

“Neil Gaiman swooped into my life though another friend, Jason Webley, who knew we were fans of each other's work and introduced us via email. Neil and I, like me and Ben, just hit it off instantly.”

“There's no blueprint; getting married doesn't make you boring, having kids doesn't make you boring, having money doesn't necessarily have to make you boring.”

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