A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
Laurie Anderson

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.
Laurie Anderson

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
Laurie Anderson

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
Laurie Anderson

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
Laurie Anderson

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
Laurie Anderson

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.
Laurie Anderson

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
Laurie Anderson

I hate zoos.
Laurie Anderson

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
Laurie Anderson

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
Laurie Anderson

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.
Laurie Anderson

I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
Laurie Anderson

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
Laurie Anderson

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
Laurie Anderson

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.
Laurie Anderson

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
Laurie Anderson

I think women are excellent social critics.
Laurie Anderson

I'm a real workaholic.
Laurie Anderson

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
Laurie Anderson