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One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
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You know, there are so many snarky angry critics out there who are just sort of looking to tear down whoever is getting talked about.
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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 feel that part of my life's artwork is creatively dealing with all this negativity and anger and rage and hatred coming from whatever corners it's coming from and somehow manifesting all of that anger into something positive, which is such a hard job.
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There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully owning their own narrative. It's so threatening to people, to women as well, and it's threatening the order of things.
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When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that’s when the darkness takes over.
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I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about. I've slept with girls I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.
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Take on the pain and wear it as a shirt.
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I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.
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You tour and you work hard and you take care of your fans and very real things lead to other real things. There's never been some fantastic fluke or break in my career, it has all been very slow and steady.
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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.
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How do we let people pay for music?
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I don't try to make anybody outside happy.
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Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.
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There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.
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You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.
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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.
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I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being told what to do. But like any artist or any human being out there, I desperately want to be loved, and I spend my entire life trying to balance those two facts.
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