About Suzanne Vega: Suzanne Nadine Vega is an American songwriter and singer known for her eclectic folk-inspired music.
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.
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.
I was always inventing characters and making up stories.
My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
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.
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.
It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
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.
I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
I still consider myself a feminist.
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.
Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.
How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.
Some girls are taught to be sexy.
Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.
There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.
Don't make a threat and then not do it.
You have to defend your honor. And your family.
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.
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.
