232 Quotes by Amanda Palmer

It made me consider one of the reasons I loved my fanbase so much: they are wholly independent and have their own unassailable, discerning tastes. They weren’t looking to me as a leader to follow blindly, there to dictate their choices. They were looking to me as a connector, a coordinator, which was the role I wanted.

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.

Everyone I know shares toothbrushes. Everyone I know sleeps on each other’s floor. Everyone I know uses what they’ve got and shares what they’ve got.

I’m a massive fan of David Lynch and ‘Twin Peaks.’

Limitations can expand, rather than shrink, the creative flow.

Your songs are good, Amanda. And I’m not just saying that. I stared at him in disbelief. I get given a lot of music, he continued. It’s like that on the road, you know, we get handed mountains of demo tapes every night. And they’re, you know, not always good. Your songs are good. I don’t know what your plans are. But I hope you keep going. I just wanted to say that.

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.

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

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