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. Amanda Palmer Read Quote
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. Amanda Palmer Read Quote
If you’re willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities. Amanda Palmer Read Quote
I have used Twitter for so many things, from places to stay, places to go, things to do, things I need, medical advice, you name it. Especially when I’m on tour, it really feels like I’m being taken care of by half a million people. It is like having a mom. Amanda Palmer Read Quote
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. Amanda Palmer Read Quote
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. Amanda Palmer Read Quote
You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the artist, especially because we’ve been educated to think that the artist are these special creatures are otherwordly and aren’t like us. Amanda Palmer Read Quote
One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians. Amanda Palmer Read Quote
I’ve always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn’t have at least half a dozen projects going on at once. Amanda Palmer Read Quote
The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I’m in the middle of a battlefield. Amanda Palmer Read Quote
