I hate being ignored.
From Amanda Palmer
I've been in a recording studio enough times to know that it is not the best place to multitask. Doing a couple of takes of a song and running out to check your email to talk to someone about video production really is not good.
I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.
My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.
The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.
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.
I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
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.
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.
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