Suzanne Vega Quotes - Page 2

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

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

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

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

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.

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

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

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.

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

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.

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.

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

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.

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.

Some girls are taught to be sexy.

I still consider myself a feminist.

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.

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.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. 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. That's why I write the way I do.

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

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.

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.