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

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

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

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.

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.