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.

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

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

I did do Broadway for a little less than a year and realized quickly I don't have a passion for it and, more importantly, I don't have a talent in it.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.