Suzanne Vega Quotes

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.

- Suzanne Vega

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

- Suzanne Vega

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

- Suzanne Vega

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.

- Suzanne Vega

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.

- Suzanne Vega

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.

- Suzanne Vega

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

- Suzanne Vega

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.

- Suzanne Vega

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.

- Suzanne Vega

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.

- Suzanne Vega

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

- Suzanne Vega

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.

- Suzanne Vega

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

- Suzanne Vega

I still consider myself a feminist.

- Suzanne Vega

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

- Suzanne Vega

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

- Suzanne Vega

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.

- Suzanne Vega

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

- Suzanne Vega

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.

- Suzanne Vega

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

- Suzanne Vega

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

- Suzanne Vega

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.

- Suzanne Vega

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

- Suzanne Vega

Some girls are taught to be sexy.

- Suzanne Vega