232 Quotes by Amanda Palmer

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

Men find powerful women so threatening, and finding a partner was starting to look laughable, because I would be really attracted to guys and they would just be so threatened and I didn't like feeling threatening, I didn't want to feel threatened, I didn't want to feel like I was towering over anybody.

There are a lot of ways in which Brian and I have nothing in common. I remember saying to Brian - it broke his heart but it was true - this is the one-year point where if you were my boyfriend I would break up with you, but this is a band.

I wanted to feel like I could extend someone else's joy and not crush it, and that is the giant paradox nowadays of being a powerful woman: you want to live in a space of compassion and helpfulness and joy and expression, and the world is standing there, pointing the finger at you and telling you that you're greedy and domineering and attention-grabbing, and all you can do is shrug and just say, "Hopefully, someone out there understands and isn't misinterpreting."

This course wasn't as hilly as SRV. This seemed faster.

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.

The drums are a lot more integrated into the fabric of the songwriting instead of just layered on top, like it was when we first met.

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.

All of The Dresden Dolls upcoming scheduled appearances at European Festivals have been cancelled.