Suzanne Vega Quotes

I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

Although I don't know Oslo at all, there is something about the feel or the smell of the place that feels like home, which is quite interesting.

Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.

I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.

I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.

For me personally to come back to Toronto, I lived here for three years. I always love coming back here.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

I'm getting back to my old roots.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered

Every time I visit Brisbane, I think, 'This is my childhood.'

Going home is not necessarily a wonderful experience. It always comes with a sense of loss and makes you so conscious of the inexorable passage of time.

When you connect as many memories to your geography as I have, and then you see that geography change around you, you're forced to reckon with the passage of time.

If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it.

It always just feels good going back home. It feels like nothing has changed. Seeing my room, the views. It, like, grounds you.

When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.

It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.

There's something strange - not in a bad way - about going back to where you grew up or recreating where you grew up. It's strange and stimulating.

Whether I live there again or not, Seattle will always be my home.

Miami feels like home to me.

I think being back in Australia has kind of helped a little bit because you just feel really comfortable around everyone, and it's the same environment that I've grown up in.

I'm going to always have a home in Houston, I'm going to always come back.