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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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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
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I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.
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I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
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There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.
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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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All of my music, my stage show, my personality, my blog, my twitter feed, anything that's made me me, and a huge part of why people like and respect me, is that I just don't spend much energy on that other stuff. It's not worth it. It's a losing battle too. You're just screwed the minute you engage.
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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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I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?
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You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.
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I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.
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