Quotes from Amanda Palmer

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

You know what's really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.

I suffer mornings most of all I feel so powerless and small By ten o'clock I'm back in bed Fighting the jury in my head

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.

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.

Thank God my best friend's a therapist.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.

The pattern's laid out on the bedWith dozens of colors of threadBut you've got the needleI guess that's the point in the end

I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

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.

Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

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.

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're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities.

Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

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.

When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that's when the darkness takes over.