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When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.
Amanda Palmer
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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
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If you're going to make work and you're going to write and you're going to put yourself out there and perform, you will be belittled, you will be insulted, you will be called a standard collection of names, you will be accused, and you just have to stand there and continue to work and find a way to not let those things poison you.
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I don't try to make anybody outside happy.
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You know what’s really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.
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I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by let's sit around and b*tch people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays.
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I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.
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I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'
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I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of your choices, your mood, your body, and your opinions, people find you sexy.
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If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.
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I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through and to help me stay steady.
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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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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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There's a fundamental disconnection in society in the way we live, this way we live that we take so for granted, and we've become very separate from one another and we don't really take lot of time to realize that. And the math is overwhelming to the point of despair, but the answers could be so simple.
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There's a part of me that is really, really happy with all of my success lately because of what it can get me and what it can buy me in the fact that my music will hopefully reach more people. But it also makes me a little bit miserable because the minute the spotlight is on you, people start flinging sh*t at you for whatever reason.
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I feel like if I were to play the game completely and just get myself in a giant bottle of nail polish and put myself on display, I would feel like I had somehow cosmically lost. I feel like I'm taking a bunch of the ingredients and using some of them but not all of them and shuffling around and making people think I'm doing my job.
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I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.
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I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.
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The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like Im in the middle of a battlefield.
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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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Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.
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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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