American - Musician | April 30, 1976 -
I've always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn't have at least half a dozen projects going on at once.
Amanda Palmer
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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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The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.
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I hate being ignored.
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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.
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The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
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I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
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I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
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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.
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I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.
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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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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.
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