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A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

Suzanne Vega

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Suzanne Vega
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: July 11
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Playwright
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Santa Monica
California
Suzanne Nadine Vega
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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.
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Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.
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I was always inventing characters and making up stories.
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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.
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It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.
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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.
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I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.
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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.
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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.
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That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.
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I still consider myself a feminist.
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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.
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I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.
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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.
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It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
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