Hi guys!! It is thrilling to read about everybody’s reactions to the album and hearing about your hunts to find it in the country you are in!! For a while I will be sending a portrait a day instead of a diary entry since I have no time right now! I hope you are enjoying [...]
Suzanne at age 8, Alyson and Matthew (Photo by Eric Maristany) By Myself I stand by myself Not lonely at all. I listen to the little birds Beckon and call. I stand by myself By the pond, with the fish And now I don’t even Have one little wish Except to be by myself Each [...]
Notebook pages written In Liverpool by Suzanne Vega …the bells are clanging and clamouring from what appears to be a church now they have stopped, ring twice — now the ceremony is over — it had gone on for a good five or ten minutes. two clocks look into my hotel room and from the [...]
1982 Of particular interest to the songwriters in the Village is the Monday night songwriters exchange, which has been going on for five years now at the Cornelia Street Cafe. Every Monday night, beginning at about 7 P.M., songwriters gather and sign up to sing a song they have written the previous week. The rules [...]
The following was originally printed in The New York Times Magazine on November 20, 1988, and reprinted in ‘Bullet in Flight’, a collection of Suzanne’s lyrics published in 1990 by Omnibus Press. Copyright Omnibus Press, 1990 Copyright /Waifersongs Ltd. Blue Sky And Blood On 10th Avenue When I was growing up I spent five years [...]
Musician Magazine, 1991 “Tired Of Sleeping” is a song from the dream images. I find it weird to sing because it makes me feel sad, but I also feel that it’s one that I have to sing. Its a song of having intense dreams and wanting to wake up from them in your real life, [...]
“On Masculinity” orignally appeared in Esaquire Magazine, October 1991 One of my earliest memories is as follows: I am sitting with my first boyfriend. His name is Markie and he is my next-door neighbor. We are both four years old. I look over at him and say, When I grow up, I am going to [...]
December 1993 “Portugal?” says my brother. “Isn’t that a totally coastal country?” he says, in that American way some people have of speaking. Yes, it is totally coastal, I tell him. It’s a total coast, with miles of beach. It’s a fishing country, where fishermen still sail every day, and people cook sardines by leaning [...]
Amnesty International; June, 1995 ISBN 187332815X FOREWORD My name is Suzanne Vega and I have helped the work of Amnesty International since 1988. Recently, I began working with the Working Group for Children, the division of Amnesty International devoted to the rights of children caught in the political crossfire. I have done a lot of [...]
“Fighting” orignally appeared in Details Magazine, July 1995 VIOLENT FEMME Suzanne Vega puts her best fist forward Some girls are taught to be sexy. L.A. girls, for example. They’re taught to be blond and cute and show a lot of skin. It’s different in New York. Here you have to prove yourself, and you can’t [...]
