Laurie Anderson

I'm a real workaholic.

— Laurie Anderson

I hate zoos.

— Laurie Anderson

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

— Laurie Anderson

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

— Laurie Anderson

You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?

— Laurie Anderson

When love is gone, there's always justice.

— Laurie Anderson

I think women are excellent social critics.

— Laurie Anderson

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

— Laurie Anderson

Art is about paying attention.

— Laurie Anderson

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

— Laurie Anderson

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

— Laurie Anderson

They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.

— Laurie Anderson

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

— Laurie Anderson

Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.

— Laurie Anderson

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

— Laurie Anderson

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

— Laurie Anderson

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.

— Laurie Anderson

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see…

— Laurie Anderson

“and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause everybody on the island was saying look at me”

— Laurie Anderson

Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do.…

— Laurie Anderson

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a…

— Laurie Anderson

The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.

— Laurie Anderson

I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of…

— Laurie Anderson

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy…

— Laurie Anderson

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

— Laurie Anderson

“You can dance. You can make me laugh. You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat. You've got…

— Laurie Anderson

“Well it was one of those days Larger than life When your friends came to dinner And they stayed the night And…

— Laurie Anderson

I always wonder when people have any kind of spiritual and meditative practice especially if it's one designed in part to help…

— Laurie Anderson

I kind of didn't believe the doctors when they came over and they said you're not going to be able to walk…

— Laurie Anderson

. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation]…

— Laurie Anderson

All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the…

— Laurie Anderson

If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey,…

— Laurie Anderson

I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what…

— Laurie Anderson

I don't care about being famous or having a lot of people go, "She's really good."

— Laurie Anderson

Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.

— Laurie Anderson

If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.

— Laurie Anderson

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

— Laurie Anderson

The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

— Laurie Anderson

Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.

— Laurie Anderson