232 Quotes by Amanda Palmer

When I find myself having to share a meal with someone who simply wants to complain about the world, I almost feel myself wanting to crawl out of my skin and just sort of scurry away. But being able to pick up on that stuff and being able to easily identify the people walking towards the light instead of walking towards the darkness, that's a skill I'm very, very glad to see growing in myself.

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

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.

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

The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.

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

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

If I were a guy, it would be, you know, just a different set of problems I have to carry along.

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