I’m an average enough person to point to the things I’ve gotten to see that are awe-inspiring. – Laurie Anderson
When love is gone, there’s always justice. And when justice is gone, there’s always force. And when force is gone, there’s always Mom. Hi, Mom! – 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 hobby since I hadn’t made money with it. – Laurie Anderson
It’s good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever? – Laurie Anderson
Performance art is about joy, about making something that’s so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can’t put into words. – Laurie Anderson
Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won’t once it’s decoded. – Laurie Anderson
People are really suffering these days. There’s a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for. – Laurie Anderson
My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people. – Laurie Anderson
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire. – 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
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That’s probably the most pretentious thing I’ve said. – Laurie Anderson
People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They’re not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There’s just regret. – 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
One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show. – 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
