Amanda Palmer

I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me,
I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.

Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer (born 30 April 1976), also known as Amanda Fucking Palmer, is the lead singer, keyboardist, and songwriter of the Brechtian punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls, the duo Evelyn Evelyn, as well as a solo performer and impresario. She was married to writer Neil Gaiman.

Quotes

I really like Neil a whole, whole, whole lot, and I really do not want to marry Kevin Smith, even a little.

Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.

I'm not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand.

You're rich in love, you're great bed, you'll see the world, you'll knock 'em dead

All the thick books that you've read will count for nothing in the end.

• I write a lot, but it's not all fantastic. There's plenty of terrible crap. We work on a few things at a time, let some things fall away, make changes. We certainly have enough for the next album, which could take at least another year to come out.
  • Interview in Only Angels Have Wings (April 2004)

• Interviewer Barb H: Your sound is quite refreshing, did it come naturally?
  AP: As natural as the day you were born, my love.
  
  • Interview in Only Angels Have Wings (April 2004)

• It makes me very sad when I find out that people who never hear our music think that we are really about image and not about substance. … I can understand why you might get that impression if you've never heard the band's music and see a photo of a guy and a girl dressed up in crazy costumes and think, "I don't need to pay attention to that — why do they need to wear those crazy clothes?" I think that's why we've constantly toured. Our live show is so intense and so substantive and emotional that it's sort of the price we have to pay for being so flamboyant — we have to prove ourselves as a rock band.
  • As quoted in "Getting Real With Amanda Palmer" at AfterEllen (18 July 2007)

• I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about … I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.
  • As quoted in "Getting Real With Amanda Palmer" at AfterEllen (18 July 2007)

• Rock needs theater, rock is theater. We just go through different eras of guilty admission about this. Having risen with The Dresden Dolls in the heyday of The Strokes and The White Stripes, everyone was looking at us as completely misfit theater dorks. But it’s really encouraging to see a more theater-dork wave of bands like The Scissor Sisters, Antony & The Johnsons, CocoRosie, Patrick Wolf and even Arcade Fire and Decembrists becoming popular. The dress-up freaks are coming back, and it’s wonderful to watch.
  • As quoted in "Amanda Palmer Freaks Out With Evelyn Evelyn" by Scott Thill in WIRED (29 March 2010)

• I really like Neil a whole, whole, whole lot, and I really do not want to marry Kevin Smith, even a little. Do you remember the Trojan War, dude? I’m just saying. Can you imagine what a world war between a Neil Gaiman army and a Kevin Smith army would actually look like? Their fans are serious. I predict there would be lots of very high-fallutin’, toilet-based name-calling, confusing many. And possibly foam swords swinging at hockey sticks. Actually, that’s bullshit. There’s no way anybody would leave their Twitter feeds for long enough to pull out a foam sword or a hockey stick. Maybe it’ll be the world’s first full-on digital war and people will just head over to Second Life to duke it out. I hope Neil’s army wins.
  • On a humorous twitter courtship by Kevin Smith, as quoted in "Amanda Palmer Freaks Out With Evelyn Evelyn" by Scott Thill in WIRED (29 March 2010)

• i am a herd of cats and a drunk shepherd with alzheimer’s all at once.
  i am the walrus.
  • "EL FUCKING NIÑO, in which i post no pictures of pirates" at AFP : Amanda Palmer's blog

Lyrics

• Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.
  • "Night Recconaissance" Live (2006)

• A turn, a screw, a pull, a twist, the drug that makes you prettiest.
  • "June is Busting Out All Over" Live (Date unknown)

• I'm not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand.
  • "Ampersand" Live (2006)

• you're rich in love
  you're great bed
  you'll see the world
  you'll knock 'em dead
  and all the thick books that you've read
  will count for nothing in the end
  • "Straight" Live (2004)

• I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me,
  I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.
  • Do You Swear to Tell the Truth the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth So Help Your Black Ass (2010)

External links

• Amanda Palmer's autobiography and blog on the Dresden Dolls website
• myspace web site
• Short biography
• Living Statues by Amanda Palmer and Co
• Dresden Dolls photos
• Who Killed Amanda Palmer album, book and videos