Suzanne Vega Quotes

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

Don't uncork what you can't contain

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

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

Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they're just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

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