World is not the same what words are. We are looking for meanings constantly. Is it right? What if the world has no meaning, like classical music, like sound of guitar. You just listen to it and let the sounds float. In my opinion transformation in Suzanne’s music started back to “Penitent”, the opening song of “Songs in Read and Gray”. This is the messenger of new approach, of new quality in her songs. To me there is big difference between earlier songs and songs now. Present songs of Suzanne have more social, spiritual meaning than they had before, they are less “wild”. “There feeling in the pipeline” - that was true then and is true now, but the weight of messages changed. There are more intellectual states, there is more meanings, less shots of images in her songs, more as to speak verbs than objects. I remember that Suzanne said once in an interview that if she would like to give message she would write pamphlet or something like that. But she found way to say messages in art more then before. She’s found balance between being intellectual, spiritual without hiding meaning behind “half expression”, “half images”, she is more a teacher than searcher. You may disagree but it seems to me that art. is at some level story without meaning like as I said music is. My impression is that Suzanne is now more aware of social issues than ever she was. Maybe that is motherhood or just sort of finding intellectual peace, end of the rebel and the beginning of passing by intellectual and spiritual ideas in more straightforward manner.

Be well,

Anna Maria K.

Considering words as something material it is beyond all doubts that words are not world – or world is not words. Looking for a meaning of word “spiritual “ itself I came to conclusion that maybe the core of this word is relation to immaterial world and higher consciousness. In that meaning “Days of open Hand “ is the most spiritual album, I agree. Maybe the feel of spirituality came from self-doubting, lack of self-confidence and feel of immaterial (spiritual as a matter of fact) suffering – “Rusted pipe” as an example for that. Here we have “open hand” the most vulnerable, as you said, and defenceless as it seems to me. Many years later we have in Suzanne’s song “fist against eternity”. This is not longer the “open hand”. This is the history of one life, spoken and sung and played. I remember Suzanne said in one interview that she would like to leave music on "open hand" to someoone else - maybe not exact words, but this is how I understood her words. And here I said big "no" - maybe just music on "Open of Open Hand" is the most spiritual experience ever.