Suzanne Vega Quotes

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

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

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

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.

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

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 think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.

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 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.

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

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.

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

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

The beams and bridges cut the light on the ground into little triangles and the rails run round

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

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

To me, a feminist belongs 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.

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

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

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

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

Some girls are taught to be sexy.

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

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

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.

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.

Don't uncork what you can't contain

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