Amanda Palmer Quotes

I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal.

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

My life is an open pamphlet.

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

I don't hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.

We tap into something when we're honest about what's going on in our lives.