The provocative performer and DIY social media queen Amanda Palmer is juggling career, marriage and new motherhood. Despite all the demands, she remains an artist in motion.

“I’m in the back of a cab in Edinburgh,” she says with a laugh, calling from Scotland. “I’m on my way to a sound check.”

The theatrical Palmer first found fame as a vocalist and piano player in the Boston-based duo the Dresden Dolls. The singer-songwriter then launched a successful solo career. Known for her early and effective use of social media to communicate directly with her devoted grass-roots fans, she was the first musician to raise more than $1 million for an album project on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.

These days Palmer is busy as a mother to 1-year-old Anthony (nicknamed Ash), her son with husband, author and sometime collaborator Neil Gaiman. Last summer she released the album “You Got Me Singing” with her father, Jack Palmer.

Her striking new video for the musical version of the poem “Wynken, Blynken & Nod” features her son sleeping in a cradle while Palmer and a group of collaborators brainstorm ideas over wine and create dreamlike scenarios around the baby. It’s a lovely work of art that conjures a fairy tale come to life.

In a recent interview, Palmer talked about her relationship to her fans and balancing music and motherhood. This is an edited transcript.

Q: Have you and your husband, Neil, traveled together a lot this past year with your son?

A: Yes, we’ve basically been traveling nonstop since the baby was born. That’s been really wonderful because we’ve been visiting our large extended biological family and our art family. We’re currently staying with some of our best friends here in Edinburgh. I specially booked a show here so I could show them the baby. (Laughs.) We’ve been going around the globe now that our child is totally portable. It’s been easier than I thought it would be, which is a relief. It’s a lot of work, but I get so much pleasure from being with the baby.

Q: You’ve always been extraordinarily close with your fans. You share all aspects of your life. How has motherhood affected your relationship with them?

A: I’ve really had to put my relationship to my fans a little bit on the back burner because I’m giving my time to my child. But one thing I treasure so much about my relationship with them is that there’s no backlash. They totally understand I’m being a mother right now. This is why I love my fans so dearly — we are in an open relationship. (Laughs.) We come and we go. Babies get born. Friends die. We go on this journey together. The beauty of it at this point is that I’ve been in this relationship with them for 15 years. We’re so intimate with each other. If I were a mystique-shrouded pop star with paparazzi following me around, and a fan base that didn’t actually prize my psychological health and well-being over their own needs, I would just walk myself off a cliff. But my fans take such good care of me. They treat me like a person and I really try not to take that for granted.

Q: How did you come up with the video concept for “Wynken, Blynken & Nod”?

A: It popped into my head one day. I was musing about what the song meant. The whole poem is like a surreal collaboration between a parent and a child. There’s the parent reading the poem to the child. But then you step back and wonder, ‘Whose fantasy is this, the baby’s or the grown-up’s?’ I thought it would be fun to do an inverted ‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ where, instead of the child going off into this fantastical mystical nighttime journey, it’s the adult. Then everything goes back to the mundane in the morning.

Q: The video was shot in one night with the help of your friend and collaborator Jason Webley and the cast of the podcast fictional drama ‘Welcome to Night Vale.’ How did you decide to show the images of everyone working at a long wooden table?

A: I love doing projects where I’m really showing the work. We’re not going to pretend that we’re making magic, we’re just going to show you that we’re making art. I really wanted the video to feel like you’re watching a room full of people working and making each other laugh all night, which was literally what it was.

Q: You’ve successfully used social media to cultivate and nurture a devoted following. You’ve also had your share of dealing with online backlash. How have you dealt with the different aspects of sharing your life on the internet?

A: It’s definitely part of today’s job, especially as a self-publicizing, honest, transparent artist who has put all her complex and dirty laundry on display on a blog. That really is the way I love to do it with my fans. I never wanted to deliver art through the mail slot. I really like being in the room with everybody, and that comes with this whole messy job that you never expected you were going to have to learn. I’ve navigated it as best I could.

Q: You support your career now through Patreon, the crowdfunding platform that allows content creators to get funding directly from their fans. How is that method working out for you?

A: The timing of Patreon coming into my life, right at the birth of the baby, was a real godsend. I’ve got a subscriber base of 8,000 fans, and they are all paying me micropayments every time I put out a piece of content. Because I’m a mother and my schedule is bananas, I now have total control over that lever. I can pull it when I want. I can put out a video when I feel like it. I don’t have to be on an album release cycle. I don’t have to be on tour. I can make the art that I want and have a guaranteed budget. That’s the working mother’s fantasy.