Laurie Anderson

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

“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.”

“You can do great things with low-tech stuff.”

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

“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.”

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

“The fewer expectations you have, the better.”

“You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?”

“I'm a real workaholic.”

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

“I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.”

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

“I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.”

“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.”

“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.”