Amanda Palmer Quotes

I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

Family is hugely important to me, because like I said, it takes a village to raise a child. That's my theme. That's how I really feel about life.

That's the key thing I learned from making 'The East': It doesn't matter what happens in your life, good or bad. What matters is that there's a group around you to catch you when you fall and push you back up a little bit.

The happiest people are the ones with the most community.

You never really realize how many people care about you until they all turn out to support you.

I really, really need community.

I think about Twitter as the friend that's always awake. It's why I tweet so much.

I'm lucky I've got such a strong group of people around me - my friends, my family who I talk to every day, and it's important that I stay in touch with them.

We have to support the well-being of society.

It's the friends that make you survive this flat place called the Midwest.

There is a community out there ready to grow with you. Find them.

I love decompressing with friends. Sometimes when a tour is long, I'll fly friends over for the last part of the tour. I love to bring family with me, and spending time with them and my family is really the way to decompress.

You can put up a post on social media, and people will support you.

Cancer doesn't just happen to me; it happens to my best friend; it happens to everyone who means something in my life... The truth is, it does take a village to take care of somebody who's sick, and so we just, at all times, tried to be authentic to the actual experience we had.

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

Facebook does social really well, but continues to fail at community.

The public wants a great product, but they also want more layers of value. So it's lifestyle, it's takeaway, it's entertainment. It's all of those things and social media facilitates a big chunk of that, because they want to touch and feel you, they want to talk to someone about it, they want to join a community of other people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.

No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.

I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through and to help me stay steady.

I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.