When we really see each other, we want to help each other. Amanda Palmer More Quotes by Amanda Palmer More Quotes From Amanda Palmer You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected. Amanda Palmer unexpected artist feels I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief. Amanda Palmer belief trying world Take on the pain and wear it as a shirt. Amanda Palmer shirts pain If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come — sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected — and it balances. Amanda Palmer support balance writing How do we let people pay for music? Amanda Palmer pay people There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely. Amanda Palmer shoulders lonely honor 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. Amanda Palmer environment giving thinking We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell. Amanda Palmer connections stories writing Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world. Amanda Palmer collaboration competition world I see everybody arguing about what the value of music should be instead of what I think the bigger conversation is, which is that music has value, it's subjective and we're moving to a new era where the audience is taking more responsibility for supporting artists at whatever level. Amanda Palmer value think music responsibility 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. Amanda Palmer place best good song If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results, I don't think I'd have much desire to make art. What I do comes from a deep desire to be seen and to see others. Amanda Palmer deep me you art 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 name feel never myself If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities. Amanda Palmer risks you life interesting 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 you medical mom people 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 you getting-married boring money 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 feeling music impossible way 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 feeling think you music 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 my-life never creative life 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. Amanda Palmer my-life me work life
