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
Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.
It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!
I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.
I've always felt like an outsider across the board, since day one. The challenge has been to simply not pay attention to my outsider or insider status and just do the work and play the shows and connect with the people. And not even bother to play this game of keeping score, which is what destroys you.
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.
Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love.
I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.
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.
I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.
Meditation, especially for people who dont know very much about it and think its this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.
I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.
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.