Suzanne Vega Quotes

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

I don't mind not being cool.

I don't know why this concept of what is hip became so important to me.

I could never dream of being cool.

I'm not trying to become popular.

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.

I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school.

I've never been cool.

I want to be sure I'm being myself. I don't want to follow something because someone's like 'do this, it's popular.'

I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.

I've always hated the feeling of trying to be cool or trying to fit in.

I didn't want to act like I'm too cool for school or anything like that.

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral.

I think what it is is, if you're in school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? You think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And it's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you;re not funny then you're not...anything

I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.

I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table.

Decide whether you want to be liked or admired.

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.