Amanda Palmer Quotes

I'm very big on doing my own thing.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I appreciate individualism.

I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.

I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

I simply loved all my life; loved is too strong a word, but I had a tremendous sentiment, partly conditioned, of course, by the reality of where I grew up, for the spirit of individualism, for the idea of your being on your own in a big way.

No one controlled Frank Sinatra or told him how to sing. No secret group of managers has been telling someone like Jay-Z what to do or how to look. And no one tells me what to do except me and the people who believe in me.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

I've always had a healthy disregard for authority - it allows me to do my job as a portrait photographer and not as someone who is playing the power game.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

I guess my personality is that of a modern, strong Chinese woman. I don't believe in destiny. There are many things that can be changed. I don't like to be defeated by difficulties. I love freedom, so when I am shaping a character, I usually do it the way I want. I always find some part of my own character in a role.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist.

I am definitely an individual.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.