How related to Twin Peaks is Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
It didn’t start out being bigger than that. It started out just as a hilarious name. I’ve always been a huge David Lynch fan so it made perfect sense to make that joke. But it’s actually one of those things that worked backwards once I started thinking about the title and living with the title and I lived with it for a long time. I chose the title ages ago and then the record got delayed and delayed and delayed—four times. It started to take on a life of its own and I started to create meaning around it. That was not planned, but really fun actually. It’s not like I retroactively turned into a concept record or anything. But I definitely let it influence the artwork and influence the videos and I’m putting a book out that comes out right after the record called Who Killed Amanda Palmer? With Neil Gaiman, right? Yeah, that’s fully conceptual and totally based on the idea of me being dead. So it’s funny that if I hadn’t picked that title, I probably never would have thought about doing t
