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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.

I hate being ignored.

Amanda Palmer

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.

Amanda Palmer

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.

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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

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

Amanda Palmer

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

Amanda Palmer

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

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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

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

People had this idea about becoming rock stars packing stadiums instead of having the goal of becoming what musicians used to be in terms of how they would perform and connect people.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

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I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.

Amanda Palmer

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.

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

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

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

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

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I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

Amanda Palmer