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Amanda Palmer

lines on the record: 92
first: 2019-04-18
most recent: 2019-04-18
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“I'm also going to start a death metal band Will my death metal band will write the theme song for my happy hippie podcast?”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't think so. I mean, maybe it's actually worth mentioning to your people specifically that I'm starting my own podcast To have conversations mostly with artists about process and about asking and about how we do what we do. But I'm also having conversations with people from every possible field. I talked to David Eagleman, who's a neuroscientist. I'm going to be talking with people from Planned Parenthood. I'm going to be talking to social scientists and anyone who has anything interesting to share, I want to hunt them down and chat with them. And I'm calling it the art of asking everything. And I'm figuring it out right now, but if you want my voice in your head, if you can handle more, just stay tuned to whatever channels of mine. It will probably be hard to avoid when I launch it.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They find you patreon.com/slash Amanda Palmer, or you could just Google Amanda Palmer Patreon. I have a big website with a lot of information on it that's easy to find Amanda Palmer.net, and I'm on all the socials at Amanda Palmer. I tend to respond and discuss the most on Twitter. I am trying to wean myself from the evil, bloody tit of Facebook right now. I'm just not a fan. Sorry, Facebook. You're scoring low marks in my book right now. And you have been for a while. And I'm around. I'm on Instagram. I'm on Tubbler. But chances are if you want to chat with me, find me, wave something in my direction. I'll see you on Twitter and I'll shout back.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's boobs on the cover. And full frontal nudity. Sorry. Sorry, Grandma. One of the things that the Patreon makes possible is my ability to keep my music very cheap. For the public, for people who don't have a huge budget to spend on music. So this album, which is Clocks in at about 80 minutes, is a dollar on bandcamp. And you can pay more on Bandcamp if you want. It'll come directly to me because I own my own fucking music. But when you go and if you download this record for a dollar at Bandcamp, keep my patrons in mind because it's their funding that made it possible for me to put a giant expensive really well produced record on Bandcamp for a dollar and feel no pain.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, this is the vinyl. Most people don't have vinyl, but I mean, the album is available on vinyl and on CD in pretty much anywhere on the internet where you get music. And one of the things that my patronage...”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is important. I gave this talk at South by Southwest a couple of days ago talking about how never, ever, ever in a billion years Have had the fortitude. To make a record like this. If I had known that somewhere in there, I would have had to walk it up to Steve in marketing and say This is what I've got I know Steve for marketing and I know what the response would have been. Which is you've got to be fucking kidding us. And this is not going to play well at radio. And what do you mean your first track is 11 minutes long? Back to the drawing board lassie. And instead, I just got to sail over under and around all of those hurdles and just say this is my offering.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exhilarated by right now and really inspired by right now is that Kickstarter seems to have kicked down the door for people understanding that this kind of support and patronage was available and started to chip away at the stigma. And now Patreon is kind of picking up where Kickstarter, at least for me, kicking up where Kickstarter left off. And now thousands, hundreds of thousands of people are out there thinking that it's totally okay to just support an artist because you want to hear what they fucking have to say. Not because you want an object or a piece of plastic to put in your discman, but because you want to hear what Tim Ferris has to say about the world and you want the message out there and you want to see what music Amanda Palmer is going to make. And it's worth it to you for $3 a month to just have it exist. That's amazing. That feels like artistic evolution.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You just never know. But the point is actually not the technology, not the platforms, not the companies, not Patreon, not Indiegogo, not Facebook. It's what human beings are capable of doing for and with each other. Platforms, whatever, they'll change, they'll evolve, they'll be more or less helpful in our endeavors. But what I am”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we do not have any entanglements. There's not a whole lot of passive aggressive behavior. There just is this kind of unconditional acceptance and love for what I do and what I have to offer. And it's such a beautiful, delicious, uncomplicated relationship. And if I want a complicated relationship, I've got my marriage. I've got my parents. I've got my family. I can go there anytime. That channel is open. But when it comes to art, which is so fragile and doesn't sometimes just needs an unconditional support system. My god, like having 15,000 people who are there with a giant net to catch me in my spectacular failings as an artist or my successes or whatever they're going to be Feels like the it feels like the apex of artistic freedom.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“By a community Then she felt from these Kickstarter backers who were purportedly there to get a book, but were actually really there to support Artistic entity behind the book. They wound up supporting her family. They wound up supporting her. They supported her journey. And she talked so succinctly in a way that I have never managed to do. About what it feels like to be held by a community like this and how it actually feels safer sometimes than the community of your own friends and the community of your own family because it is an unconditional love that asks nothing in exchange. And I feel that way so often about my patrons They're just there for me. They ask very little in return, but they're very happy for what I have to give them.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll summarize her blog because it's a little bit of a tangent, but it's really important. And enough people convinced her to go to Kickstarter and do a crowdfund for this book. And she was very scared, because they were used to working in the world of publishing where everything was authenticated and there was a system and there was an order of things, but they just weren't, the book wasn't getting picked up. So they went to their community. And they did this crowdfund and they were overwhelmed and overjoyed with the amount of support that they got. And then her husband got cancer Shortly after that happened. And she was very afraid to go to her Kickstarter backers and say, thank you. Things are going to be held up. Something very bad has happened And then her husband died. And she said she had never felt more supported emotionally.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not have to think about it so much There's a great blog out there by a woman named Wendy Ice who crowdfunded a book of her husband He was a fantastic illustrator, and he did a book of illustrations for Allison Wonderland, like a new illustrated version of it that publishers wouldn't take, but people wanted it.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I mean, the boiling point's a good metaphor because like everything else. In my career, it wasn't like one day I woke up and said, Oh my God, crowdfunding has liberated my artistic voice. It's been in a long-term relationship with my community of listeners, readers, audience for 20 years. And I have experimented with every dial in that relationship. And I went through crowdfunding independently off my website. I went through using Kickstarter as a model. Now I'm using Patreon. And the platforms and the tools keep changing. But the fundamental is that I I think that when we can divorce art from money and when artists can just let go of that lever.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I actually hadn't realized that being part of the major label system, which I was, and then being an independent artist, which I was, but still out there doing like the daily grind and the daily hustle to make sure that there was money coming in so that I could pay my staff and make my work and pay my recording studio bills. I just did not realize how much of the pie chart in my brain was the hustle versus the art. And even though I still do the hustle and I still need to run my Patreon, as soon as thousands of people said, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, just relax We've got your back gonna pay you so take your time say what you need to say sing what you need to sing and we're in we've already bought the song now tell us what you have to say It was almost like being punch drunk.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Am I going to market this? You know, this idea is pretty good. This idea is genius. This song is great. This album is great. And every artist grapples with this tightrope between art and money constantly. And it's such a bizarre combination of things to think about. Here you are writing a song bearing your soul. That's thought number one and activity number one. And then activity number two is okay. How are you, how is this thing going to pay your rent? How are you going to get this thing from your soul out into the marketplace, into the hands of someone who will authenticate you, sell it, and then give you a paycheck?”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just to work to do what I need to do, to podcast, to release demos, to write, to film. And I offer back a lot. There's basically a channel of my work. And I blog and there are little perks here and there, but mostly it's an onprofit, you know, not a nonprofit model. It's an NPR model. You're just paying for me to broadcast and I will send you my broadcasts personally, you know, with a bow tie on them if you're my patron and everyone else in the world basically just gets to tune in. But I did not get, I did not understand. Disorientingly liberating, it would feel to all of a sudden not have to have the second thought every time I had an artistic thought of how am I going to sell this?”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I also knew that my fans are my fans. It's not like I'm going to find a new batch of 25,000 people the next time I do a Kickstarter Those people, it's one community. So going back and going back to the well every year to Kickstarter, another record just seemed like it was going to be exhausting on both sides. So when Patreon came along, and for people who don't know what Patreon is, it's basically a kind of a sustained subscription to an artist. So I have 15,000 people right now backing me at about $3 a month.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Uh... Changed both and it's impossible to discuss the life without the art and the art without the life at this point. I was actually pretty blindsided at how Profound the effect. On my life, on my day to day life, on my artistic life, switching to a Patreon model was. I thought that it was going to be like a good, convenient, you know, nice, sustainable way of giving my fans an avenue to pay me once and then kind of not be bothered because I would have their credit card and I could charge them at will instead of bugging them every 18 months with a crowdfunding scheme. And I knew that I would appreciate the predictability of having a certain amount of money every month and that they would appreciate not being Assaulted with an NPR style fundraiser that was going to irritate the hell out of them once a year.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, by the knock on effect, I just mean the effect period. When you actually take the plunge and make yourself vulnerable, whether that means discussing your suicidal thoughts or being open with your community about your abortion or admitting to a paralyzing fear or whatever your bag is. The effect of that, you know, we're taught that that's such a terrifying thing to do. And we've, you know, we fear whatever is waiting on the other side of that ridicule or rejection or being dismissed or whatever. But my personal experience has taught me that there is There's just an immense amount of bounty on the other side of it. And I've now been practicing it for long enough that I don't have to believe it anymore. I just know.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and it sort of gets back to what I keep seeing the major theme nowadays with Everything politically with feminism here, there with art, which is that. It feels like a paradox, especially given the cultural Kool-Aid that we've all been raised with, but vulnerability is incredible power. We're hammered so hard with the opposite message that it can be very hard to really believe that. Until you do it and do it again and do it again and practice doing it and realize that actually the knock-on effect and the...”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And they're also, you know, they're disempowered at every turn by men taking charge of the narrative and infantilizing women, patronizing them, and taking charge of things that women could very well do foreign by themselves, foreign with each other as they have for millennia until doctors marched in the room and said, step aside, ladies, we have a better plan. And it's going to cost you a lot of money. Fuck capitalism.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To do it and create it and share it. And the thing that men come just equipped with DNA wise, and I don't want to get into gender politics because things will get very dangerous. But we're so bad at taking care of each other in these departments, at supporting each other. And the strength that women have had for thousands of years to deal with the dark side of reproduction and to deal with the real visceral, bloody life and death of periods and stillbirths and abortions and dead babies. You know, it's not nothing. It is badass. It requires an incredible fortitude. And strength of body and mind to Go through experiences like that. Women go through it, but they don't really get a ton of credit.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Bloody battle after bloody battle and uh. I thought about all of that. It was sort of like I had the skin of this flash, like the montage of male violence through recent history, all the wars, all the battles, all the bloodshed, all of the comrades. And while holding that image in my mind, I thought about being up in the hotel room alone, like as a woman surrounded by blood and holding this dead baby and thinking. No man has ever done that. Gone through that particular battle. And that is one deep fucking To grow life and then Hold it in your hands and say goodbye. And I thought One of the reasons that we are Not doing so hot as a culture is the This thing that women Are fundamentally equipped to do and are really quite good at when we are given the space.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I had a Thought flashed through my head that day that I woke up from the miscarriage and It was also minus five degrees on the mountaintop that night and that day. It was that sort of like you don't even go outside kind of cold. And I remember I remember walking outside and thinking my relationship to pain and discomfort has been permanently altered. Something has been rewired. And I also found myself thinking. Found myself thinking about women and men. And what we come equipped to endure and what we do endure. Found myself thinking men. You know, in the male narrative, especially recently, and when I say recently, I mean, like whatever the past few thousand years of patriarchy, there is this real... This real machismo and this male narrative around violence and war and strength and the ability to withstand pain for a noble cause.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, because pain can become a kind of a music. That drowns out. The other conversations that you should maybe be listening to. Because pain can be annihilating, and annihilation can feel great. If you're annihilating. Other things”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If you're feeling pain, just stop the pain. Don't think about why you might be in pain. Don't think about where it might be coming from and why you might need to feel it or feel this discomfort. Just fucking get rid of it. And we have a handy product for you that we're willing to sell you at great expense to yourself to just make that pain go away. But as you said earlier, That's never a sustainable option ever.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that made me much more able to just sit with it and deal with it. But so many women, when they go into the experience of having childbirth, are just frightened to death by people, by doctors, by narrative, by whatever like bullshit TV dramas they've seen on your average soap opera where there's a woman shrieking in agony, being wheeled on a gurney with six people around her with a baby inside of her, that like you are going to be in pain and pain is bad and you need to stop this pain, which is why most women will just race to take drugs and get an epidural, which winds up being very, very... Negative and with a knock on effect for both baby and mama. And What a classic metaphor for our entire fucking society.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Danger, you are in danger and your pain is sending you a very, very specific, loud message that you are in danger and you need to take action. And the other kind of pain is really more describable as a kind of a discomfort. But it's not danger More I think about our bodies and the messages they send us, because our body, any kind of pain or discomfort is always a message from somewhere. As soon as I really, you know, as soon as I was in labor when I was having ash and my labor was 24 hours, as soon as I went into labor, I really... Clocked and took on board the idea that this wasn't dangerous pain. And because I was sort of able to flick a switch in there. And have a conversation with myself and my own body in which I said self. You're not in danger. This is just uncomfortable. It didn't really feel like pain. It felt like discomfort. And”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Befriend it. Almost. One of One of the most powerful lessons I have had The pain department and the understanding what we're calling pain was Going through a natural childbirth. Which, when people ask me to describe it, the best thing I can come up with, and it is not necessarily an analogy that works for all people, but it's like an acid trip. You have to let go of the wheel, or you will really suffer. And, um, What gets in the way a lot, I think, when women go in to have babies is that they are told that this will be extremely painful. But there's a difference between the kind of pain. That is childbirth and the kind of pain that is someone just sliced your arm open with a razor blade. One is”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It sort of feels like my final exam in songwriting. It's the most raw, unedited offering from a place of grief, but also empowerment and enlightenment that I could offer up to anyone out there who would need it. It's in a way it's like, The most medicinal. Record I've ever made, and I know because I needed it. And if I needed this medicine, it's probably going to work on other people. Here, you try it. Is this going to work on you? And that's. Been what it is”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Intimidated. Yeah, I just felt too. I felt too small Know, I know that the cure did this for me, the legendary pink dots did this for me, Leonard Cohen did this for me. Not sure I'll ever be doing that for anyone, but I know that I want to be like them. I know that I want to write music about my pain. But then a magic trick, then it worked. Then people were crying at my shows. Then women were coming up to me and telling me about their pain, their abusive relationships, their rapes, their struggles and men of all ages, sizes, and genders. And I thought, oh, I guess this is the way it works. And I stumbled into this job. Now, I guess I do it. And I learn how to get better at it. And one of the things about this record is that it actually, it”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They were having their own experiences. I hadn't really totally clocked that. I mean, of course, I subconsciously knew because I had listened to music all my life. I knew that other musicians had done it for me. But I think I was too... I think I was too. The word I'm looking for not scared, but like I did ever believe that I would be that person for someone else.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I feel like if you're an artist, maybe if that's the door you come in through, great, that's step one. Yes, your pain is valuable. Good. Like starting kit. Step two, your pain is valuable to others. That's like master level The interesting thing about being not believed and going into this line of work. I didn't go in thinking that music was a service industry. I went in thinking it was what I needed. I needed to express myself and be believed by these people. Will you believe me? Great. You'll buy the ticket. You'll buy the CD. You will understand this pain. Great. This is a job I want to do. But it did not take long. For the next curtain to open and for me to see the The people in the audience and the people buying the CDs, they weren't just validating my pain and they weren't there to validate my pain and to believe me.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that's a word, but then again, let's say proliferation. Because of the proliferation of this myth, Artists suffer. They should not. We should be taking care of our artists the way we take care of any other valuable cultural tool. Artists are really fucking necessary for us to make it through this veil of tears. And if we don't take care of them and the art that they make and the music that they make, we all collectively suffer. I mean, I believed in that myth for a really long time. I was a super self-destructive. Self styled artist Bohemian weirdo in my teens 20s and well into my 30s and you know I still have my moments but I really bought it I was like I need to have a dangerous destructive life of sex drugs and rock and roll so that I can be awesome and have great things to write about And my pain is valuable.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, that is such a Tyrannical and destructive myth. I think Neil believes that, and I spend a lot of time trying to convince him that It doesn't work that way. Think a lot of artists and writers and stand ups and whatever they think that if you pull on the thread of Self knowledge and healing than the entire artistic architecture of their life will just fall and disappear. So you actually have to take a bizarre faith based leap. Just believe that that's not true. But, you know, as mammals. Know In our habits and in our small minded way, if we've done something and it's worked, we're just going to continue to repeat that. We're not going to try some new combination and try to fuck with the chemistry. And this is a real problem in our culture. Because Because of this profligation a word.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Brother and sisters. Whoever was there, it was like them, the big people. And I told them what had happened in whatever way a three year old does that. And they didn't believe me And I remember the degree of pain that I felt. Not being believed was pretty seismic compared to the pain of falling down the stairs. That was shattering. Like all of a sudden, things are not okay. Like, I just, my world was blown apart. And I remember being in this yoga retreat and thinking like, I think I literally laughed out loud, like belly laughed when I started thinking about that incident and then the fucking line of work I chose Which is to get up in front of thousands of people and scream about my pain to paying customers nailed it! But, you know, it. It's not connected”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Probably around Ash's age, whether you're on three years old. And we lived in this teeny little house, and there was a... Was a long wooden staircase that connected the second to the first floor, and I was at the top of it and slipped to the top and tumbled down the entire staircase like a cartoon, like boom, boom, boom, boom. And also like a cartoon was actually fine at the bottom, but completely freaked out. Like I had just... Literally fallen down a set of stairs, but you know, I was three and bouncy and chubby and whatever. There was no blood. There were no broken bones. But Shocked. I had the wind knocked out of me. I was disoriented. I was terrified. I ran straight to the kitchen. I don't remember exactly who was there, but probably my family, my mom, my stepdad, my older.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it's my first memory. I even write about it at the beginning of the art of asking. And it actually was only thanks to a yoga retreat that I was on in my early 30s. We did an exercise, a really beautiful exercise as a group. You know, there's maybe whatever, 50 people at this retreat. And it was actually a retreat specifically for yoga teacher training, but I was just there as a civilian. And the The question we had gotten into a very quiet place and everyone was feeling very connected with themselves and I think this was an exercise that we did at night. And the question was When was the first time in your life that That you felt that things were not okay. Was the way it was phrased, and I was like, I remember it was the first thing I remember. Which was I was.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Examine it and go, oh, hey, that's that thing that you do. That's cute Enjoy that, you know, wait a couple weeks, it'll go away.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I can't stop thinking about how I want to win her over and change her mind and force her to love me and connect with me and see the light and it's almost bordering on a mental obsession. You know, I found this out whatever eight, nine days ago and it's plagued my thoughts every day, even as the record gets critically hailed, even if it is, you know, like every other review is great. Everyone is crying. Every tear is shed. Every show is sold out. Like, none of it matters because I have been unable to capture this one person's love and acceptance and attention. The fact that that's my Achilles heel, that's the bear trap that my leg is in right now speaks a lot about what I am unwilling to feel. I'm unwilling to feel unloved by everyone But I'm also way better at it than I used to be. I can at least sit here and pontificate about that.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“More than a handful myself. I have these two, but this woman is authenticated because she's not just a shitty YouTube comment. She's a journalist at a really respected outlet. And she's cockblocked my record. It won't ever be written about or reviewed in this paper. I'm obsessed with her”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the spots where I'm still uncomfortable to sit and the stuff that I'm still uncomfortable feeling lies in there. I actually, I can tell you one of the things I'm grappling right now that probably answers your question. There's a journalist out there. Who writes for a paper that I regard very highly and read and she hates me. She just hates me, hates everything I stand for, has done nothing but criticize me and just state openly that she thinks I'm a terrible, awful, narcissistic person. You have these people, Hamshire.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, that's a really good question. I used to be very afraid to be alone. I'm not anymore. Um, But I think if there's an answer to that question, it's somewhere in there. I think, you know, we always hide in plain sight, right? You're not doing this podcast for no fucking reason. And I don't do the work that I do for no reason. And Neil didn't pick science fiction fantasy and sandman for no reason. And I think. Course of my career and my work to find Deep passionate, you know, unbridled connection with others belies my fear of being alone. In the department next door, And I know that it's true because even saying it makes me uncomfortable, I have a very deep-seated fear of feeling unbelieved.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Saying, I don't know if it was an Anthony original or he picked it up from someone else, but he said. If you don't deal with your demons, they go into the cellar of your soul and lift weights.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I mean, it is. It's part of culture. It's happening every day as we speak in these buildings. Sharing anything, sharing any kind of grief, trauma, loss, sharing any kind of experiences. That's how I heal. I share. I mean, and I do it through art, I do it through conversation. I do it in cafes and pubs. I do it over dinner parties. Like I will, you know, I'll talk to anyone about anything. And I find it. Really gratifying. I find it constantly healing.”
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“Talking with other women. I mean, sharing this story All you need to do is mention to almost any woman anything about Reproductive trauma abortion, miscarriage, stillbirths, you know, problems with pregnancy. And most women have a story. And most women don't talk about it openly. But the minute you invite them, they will tell you. And I mean, now that I'm talking about this stuff openly, it's like the floodgates have opened. I had a miscarriage in a gas station bathroom. I had a miscarriage in my car with my kids in the back seat and I had to deal with all of it at the same time. I've had 10 miscarriages. And, you know, I mean, it's just rampant. It's everywhere. But we're really scolded by society to keep this stuff under wraps because it's not part of the cultural conversation.”
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“Like loss for everybody else. Like we're, you know, in health class as women, you know, you sit there in seventh grade and you're told that you're equipped to have a baby and that you should use a condom. And that's pretty much it. But there's so much more and there's so much wisdom about the human body, what we're capable of containing, what we're capable of containing emotionally. All the other things that happen. And no one tells us. No one teaches us. Which is when you think about it, and given what we all go through, it's absurd. The knowledge is there. It just doesn't get passed along.”
2019-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I actually know that I'm equipped to do this, and I know that women have been equipped to do this for tens of thousands of years. This is not news. And, you know, and nothing bad is happening to me. I'm not in danger. So I walked the halls of that yoga hotel all night. Ran a bath, had a miscarriage. With blood everywhere. Stared death in the face, went to bed, and woke up actually feeling like the most powerful version of myself I think I have ever felt. And it's so weird saying this to people and it's so weird explaining it because Miscarriage is incredibly dark, and I don't want to say that my miscarriage was fantastic. But it was also, it really was one of the most powerful experiences of my life because I Because I really centered myself and it did something very brave. And again, felt that sense of”
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“And I had been through a natural childbirth two years before. I know what it means to give birth to a child, whether alive or dead. And I didn't know exactly what to expect because no one had really told me. But I also imagined what it would be like to pick up the phone and call an ambulance or I was like, I guess I could get in my car, but I'm not in good shape. I'm in labor and I'm bleeding. And I just projected forward what that would look like and what it would feel like. I was like, I would get in an ambulance. I would be treated. A certain way I would be surrounded by all these strangers, I would be taken to a hospital, I would be strapped into things like, or I could just stay here in this room. And deal with whatever is about to come at me, and probably face some very dark images.”
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“This may sound weird, but I'm really relieved because I just had a miscarriage and I was not looking forward to this appointment. And she laid me on her table and she canceled whatever she had next. And I said, just. Just take care of me. And she found every labor inducing spot on my body. She just treated me, you know, like her sister. We wept together. She gave me this enormous hug. She wished me well. I went back to my room. I fell immediately asleep, and about an hour or two later, I woke up in labor having a miscarriage. And I was like, oh, right, all of those things the midwife told me I'm on a mountain in western Massachusetts. It's Christmas night. Am I really going to call a hospital right now? Or can I do this myself”
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