Suzanne Vega - rosemary, 1998

"I was there for a couple of weeks in May of 1995, and yes, I did meet someone in that garden, though if anyone were to have watched the scene, nothing exciting happened – he was someone who lived in Granada, and he was showing me the town. That is, nothing happened on the surface. El Carmen de los Martires is a garden near the Alhambra in the south of Spain, in Granada. It is one of many gardens near the main one. In this garden are statues of saints. Many (if not most) of them are missing their heads and their hands because people have stolen them. I guess they feel it brings luck to take these pieces of the statues home."