Amanda Palmer

I hate being ignored.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.

You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the artist, especially because we've been educated to think that the artist are these special creatures are otherwordly and aren't like us.

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.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities.

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.

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

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.

Neil Gaiman swooped into my life though another friend, Jason Webley, who knew we were fans of each other's work and introduced us via email. Neil and I, like me and Ben, just hit it off instantly.

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.