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Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer (/ˈpɑːlmər/; born April 30, 1976), sometimes known as Amanda Fucking Palmer (AFP), is an American singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, pianist, and lyricist of the duo The Dresden Dolls. She performs as a solo artist, and was also one-half of the duo Evelyn Evelyn, and the lead singer and songwriter of Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra.

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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.

Names, Perform, Poison, Stand, Things, Writing

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

Career, Careers, Embarked, Flames, Journey

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Down, Down And, Ideas, Sit, Song

I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything else - feminism and climate change, feminism and poverty, feminism and hunger - and it was almost like I was born again and started walking down the street and was like, "Oh, my God, there are women everywhere! They're just everywhere you look. There's women all over the place!"

Couple, Feminism, Jesus, Real, Years

There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.

Artist, Bullshit, Real, Think, Thinking, University

It is terrifying to people when women step up and start owning the story that they have not owned. And I'm seeing so much of this, and it is a seismic shift.

People, Stories, Steps, Owning, Shift, Seeing

I am bigger on the inside But you have to come inside to see me

Bigger, Come, See

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Collecting, Connections, Creative, Dots, Works

I don't try to make anybody outside happy.

Happy, Make, Trying

When you really look back and take the wider perspective, it makes total sense that if the status quo is to remain the way it is, women will not be lauded and applauded for bonding with and helping each other, because it would destroy the world order if women organized; it would topple the whole thing. And so, it makes perfect sense to me that the current order of things would encourage the cat fights and encourage the comparisons and encourage the girl-on-girl hate that you see just being promoted everywhere.

Cat, Current, Fights, Girl, Hate, Order

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.

Choices, Model, Mood, Real, Sexy, Thinking

It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming that I have had all my life about who I am supposed to be and how I'm supposed to look and that I'm supposed to win. It's a daily deconstruction of all that bullshit.

Bullshit, Programming, Task, Who I Am, Winning

American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure. But some of the most powerful, successful, admired people in the world seem, to me, to have something in common: they ask constantly, creatively, compassionately, and gracefully. And to be sure: when you ask, there's always the possibility of a no on the other side of the request. If we don't allow for that no, we're not actually asking, we're either begging or demanding. But it is the fear of the no that keeps so many of our mouths sewn tightly shut.

Failure, Keeps, People, Powerful, Side, Successful

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

Albums, Greatest, Hits, Make, Records, Song

If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.

Artist, Political Opinions, Politics, Right, Talking

In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to get back in the house and put some goddamn clothes on.

Back, Battle, Clothes, Fighting, Giving, Words

Everyone I know shares toothbrushes. Everyone I know sleeps on each other's floor. Everyone I know uses what they've got and shares what they've got.

Floor, Share, Sleep, Sleeps, Toothbrushes, Use

If you love people enough, they will give you everything.

People, Giving, Enough, Give, Love

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.

Band, Business, Musician, Think, Thinking

All of my music, my stage show, my personality, my blog, my twitter feed, anything that's made me me, and a huge part of why people like and respect me, is that I just don't spend much energy on that other stuff. It's not worth it. It's a losing battle too. You're just screwed the minute you engage.

Battle, Feed, People, Personality, Stage

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