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

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

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

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

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

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

I still consider myself a feminist.
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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

Some girls are taught to be sexy.
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