Laurie Anderson

Musician

1947-06-05

Quotes by Laurie Anderson

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

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

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• 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.

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• Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

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• 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.

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• The world is a strange and wonderful place.

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• I'm a real workaholic.

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

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• 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.

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• I hate zoos.

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