Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer
Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer, sometimes known as Amanda Fucking Palmer, is an American singer-songwriter who first rose to prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls. She has had a successful solo career, is also one-half of the duo Evelyn Evelyn, and is the lead singer and songwriter of Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth30 April 1976
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.
I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.
How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.
Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.
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.
I nurture my close relationships like priceless lamps. That's part of why the job itself is inherently difficult and kind of a paradox, because you're out there touring and traveling and going a million miles a minute, but the things that are keeping you steady and stable can be really hard to nurture when you're going fast, and your relationships, which are the number one thing that help me through.
Thank God my best friend's a therapist.
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.
I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.
I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.
I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.
The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
When you connect with people, they want to help you.
I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.