Amanda Palmer Quotes

When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

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

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

I get really fantastic results when I just get out of my own way.

There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

The minute I spend any energy defending myself, explaining myself, or in the worst case scenario, trying to please those who are criticizing me, I will, you know, just fall off a cliff.

Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love.

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

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

When you trust people to help you, they often do.

I am bigger on the inside But you have to come inside to see me

You're not going to be perfect, you're not going to stop berating yourself, you're not going to stop the comparisons, you're not going to stop the judgment, but you can become evermore mindful of it, and that has to be good enough.

I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being told what to do. But like any artist or any human being out there, I desperately want to be loved, and I spend my entire life trying to balance those two facts.

The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening.

Take on the pain and wear it as a shirt.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure. But some of the most powerful, successful, admired people in the world seem, to me, to have something in common: they ask constantly, creatively, compassionately, and gracefully. And to be sure: when you ask, there's always the possibility of a no on the other side of the request. If we don't allow for that no, we're not actually asking, we're either begging or demanding. But it is the fear of the no that keeps so many of our mouths sewn tightly shut.

In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to get back in the house and put some goddamn clothes on.

The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end

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

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?