83 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

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.

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

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

He was the first person I ever saw live on stage, and I was really offended by everything he was doing,