Laurie Anderson Trying Quotations

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.

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.

You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

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

I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, "Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special."