Suzanne Vega Quotes

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.

I still consider myself a feminist.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

Don't uncork what you can't contain

Mother my friends are no longer my friends And the games we once played have no meaning I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why So they've left me to my own daydreaming.

Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.

The thing that is most interesting about people is the way they are when no one is looking at them or the way they are when they are in private.

I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences.

Yes I think I'm okay, walked into the door again.

Don't make a threat and then not do it.

Some girls are taught to be sexy.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

The first song I wrote was the first song I remember thinking, "Well, maybe I can do something here." The very first one. By the second one I knew I could do something.

I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.

I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.

And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.

Today I am a small blue thing Like a marble or an eye

I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.

I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick.

Last year's troubles, They shine up so prettily, They gleam with a lustre they don't have today.

My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you've seen me before.

I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a notion in my mind and just follow it.

Solitude stands by the window She turns her head as I walk in the room I can see by her eyes she's been waiting Standing in the slant of the late afternoon