Laurie Anderson Inspiration

"The individual is always comparing his or herself to the mass media, preventing the growth of that person."

"The biggest celebrities are products [like Coke], dependable and meaningless, which is how people are encouraged to be"

"So this concept means enormous loneliness."

"The force of media is one of the biggest aliening forces in the universe."

"What is your group? It's a long way from yourself to the group, but it's a short distance to within yourself. How do you grow? How do you measure this distance?"

[consider adding reference to Katherine Ann Porter's essay on Willa Cather



The part about Andy Warhol saying "That's wonderful" or "That's fantastic" to everything because he wanted to encourage others to be their best, so he didn't say a cross word.

On performance. Turn out all the lights. Turn on the equipment. Sometimes play with innocence. Sometimes rigid to figure things out. Most things have a language and story at the core.