"I guess as a kid, I felt like a thing sometimes. Or like an object. I felt sometimes that I wasn't sure. As a child, it's easy to get that confused. You look at a doll, and it seems to have a life. Then you look at yourself, and you seem not to be able to move."
"The Open Hand Book - Notes on her New Album", Musician, 1991, also published in Language and in the Limited Edition of 99.9F° (http://www.vega.net/handbook.htm) transcribed by Eric Szczerbinski

In a story in the Passionate Eye, Suzanne describes how she was playing with a stick and a crack as a six year old.

Answering to the remark that half of the songs on 99.9F° seemed to be about child abuse:
"Not half of them, but some of them are, definitely. Bad Wisdom, definitely. And maybe As A Child."
Interview in The Onion Av Club, November 21, 2001, Volume 37, Issue 42 (http://www.theonionavclub.com/avclub3742/avfeature_3742.html)