Regina Spektor Quotes
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I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.
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No one laughs at God in a hospital.
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Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.
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Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.
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Maybe one day you’ll understand I don’t want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand.
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I saw certain things that I think maybe other kids are protected from. Like, I saw my parents struggling. I knew that we were cutting out coupons and buying dented cans because they were cheaper. And all our furniture was from the garbage. It was just - and to me because I was a kid, all that stuff was really exciting.
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[A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, in that moment you forget how it was and it's this new way. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you had, then those get all turned and changed. So in the end, I think, it just becomes it's own thing and really I think a song could be recorded a million different ways and so what my records are, it just happened like that, but it's not like, this is how I planned it from the very beginning because I have no idea, I can't remember.
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I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.
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Maybe you should kiss someone who is nice, or lick a rock, or both.
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I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.
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A man destined to hang can never drown
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You get to be your own curator of your own exhibits inside.
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I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.
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I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.
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You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature.
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I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.
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Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.
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I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat
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So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.
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I have the coolest parents.
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I feel like there's just so much of everything that I don't know what people have heard and what they haven't heard. I think with the fact that there's the Internet and that people can share home-made recordings, I think a lot of the songs do get to be heard, even if it's not the best quality, or there's clinking glasses or it's just piano and voice, people can at least hear the song.
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You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.
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As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.
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You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody close to you die to understand what death is. Definitely, the more you live, the more experiences fall into your spectrum. As a writer, you must have been told: Write about what you know. But Kafka didn't. Gogol didn't. Did Shakespeare write only what he knew? Our own selves are limitless. And our capacity for empathy is giant.
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Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.
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Sometimes I make stuff, and even I don't like it. There's something about it that I don't really like, or annoys me. For whatever reason it needs to come out.
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Not everything in the world is easy or powerful.
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I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an immigrant bubble and we didn't have MTV or cable, so I kind of discovered the '80s when I was already older, maybe in college. And I continued to have this romantic obsession with all those films and there's this sound I hear in my head and it's kind of this bittersweet romantic, dark sound.
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No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God.
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Never, never mind your bleeding heart.
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