Quotes from 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.

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better

One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

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

Art is about paying attention.

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.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

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

That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

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

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

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

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!