"Big Space is about the body being a network and finding the center. Then you think, what if there isn't any center? Or what if you get there, and there's nothing? Those were the fears I was trying to confront as I sat down to write this album. "Anger in a cold place" - that's like, well, what do you hide when you put on the uniform to get through the day? What are the things you're not acknowledging? What does the calm face hide? And it's the feelings that you're taking away. You just strip yourself of them, and you become not human - or wooden, as in Wooden Horse. 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

"It had not occurred to me that someone would see it as an outside Big Space, although I can see why they would, but I was thinking of it more as a spot within yourself where things get lost or they fall into and they never come back. It's a spiritual state too."
Interview with Fátima Castro Silva in "Urgent Whispers" (http://watermarks.vega.net/urgent_whispers/index.htm)

Notice the references in the song to language and pipelines just like in Rusted Pipe. [Ed.]