Vega's muse won't let her forget By Richard Bird Suzanne Vega may be 32, but she's still a shy, vulnerable child in a big bad world. It sort of get improved upon as I add to it, but the basic core of it is still pretty much the same. Plus I'm always interested in people who are not part of the mainstream, like children. If you saw an adult act in the way that children act, he would be considered crazy.
Children have an outsider's perspective just for being who they are.
I don't think I even saw a white picket fence until I was 11 and we took a Greyhound bus trip across America. I had no idea it didn't look like New York from here to California. In a sense, Vega had a sheltered existence in those early formative years, except that she was sheltered from many of the good things that tend to be taken for granted. I saw things every day. I was aware that I was a small child pitted against a very large world.