“I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and a...” — Amanda Palmer Quote

“I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.”

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

“I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.”

“Cornelia Parker has inspired a lot of my theatre work. Her art is about points of impact: it's poetic but with a strong literal story.”

“I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.”

“It's not in my nature to be too literal.”