Suzanne Vega famous 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.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Sexy #Smart #Character

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.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Writing #Form #Feels

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

#Writing #Way #Direct

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
-- Suzanne Vega

#Eye #Waiting #Solitude

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

#Timeless #Of Context #Consequence

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

#Eye #Blue #Today

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

#Kids #Reality #Fearless

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.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Children #Character #Sleep

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

#Threat

Don't uncork what you can't contain
-- Suzanne Vega

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

#Perspective #Different #Streets

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Thinking #Defining #Gender

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

#Mother #Wife #Discipline

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.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Writing #Voice #Details

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

#Thinking #Names #Upstairs

You have to defend your honor. And your family.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Family #Honor

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

#Mother #Sex #Use

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.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Song #Smart #Writing

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

#Girl #Crazy #Mean

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

#World #Emotion #Responsible

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

#Thinking #Doors #Low Self Esteem

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

#New York #Firsts #States

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Girl #Hurt #Fighting

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

#Writing #Issues #People

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Writing #Civilized

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.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Interesting #People #Way

I still consider myself a feminist.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Feminist #Stills

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

#Mirrors #Class #Feelings

Some girls are taught to be sexy.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Girl #Sexy #Taught

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

#Mean #Fighting #Boys

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Character #Stories #Making Up

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

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.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Rights #Feminist #Categories

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.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Mother #Games #Gone

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

#Pregnancy #Filled #Wells