It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things. — Regina Spektor Child Copy Share Image
I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it. — Regina Spektor 80s Copy Share Image
It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body. — Regina Spektor Body Copy Share Image
This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song. — Regina Spektor Angry Copy Share Image
And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going. — Regina Spektor Everlasting Copy Share Image
“You've spent half of your life Trying to fall behind You're using your headphones Just to drown out your mind.” — Regina Spektor Headphones Copy Share Image
I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable. — Regina Spektor Agitated Copy Share Image
I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you. — Regina Spektor Be you Copy Share Image
Luckily, there's enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play… — Regina Spektor Enough Copy Share Image
I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story. — Regina Spektor History Copy Share Image
I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment… — Regina Spektor Gay Copy Share Image
Songs kind of live in a timeless place for me, and since I make records I dunno, about every two-and-a-half to three… — Regina Spektor Enough Copy Share Image
I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at… — Regina Spektor Answers Copy Share Image
The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the… — Regina Spektor Artwork Copy Share Image
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.… — Regina Spektor Annoying Copy Share Image
When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something… — Regina Spektor Brilliant Copy Share Image
I'm both kinds of a person; I have a side of me that's very light and very optimistic and finds everything surreal… — Regina Spektor Feels Copy Share Image
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… — Regina Spektor Cities Copy Share Image
“This is how it works: you're young until you're not. You love until you don't, you try until you can't, you laugh… — Regina Spektor Breathe Copy Share Image
I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and… — Regina Spektor Amount Copy Share Image
You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end… — Regina Spektor And at the end of the day Copy Share Image
I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish… — Regina Spektor Cellars Copy Share Image
I saw certain things that I think maybe other kids are protected from. Like, I saw my parents struggling. I knew that… — Regina Spektor Buying Copy Share Image
I feel different. You know this many times over, because you are a parent, but it transforms you. It's this incredible experience… — Regina Spektor Children Copy Share Image
It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for. — Regina Spektor Art Copy Share Image
I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything,… — Regina Spektor Done Copy Share Image
If somebody wanted to go and find songs of mine to fill an iPod, that aren't on any records. They could probably… — Regina Spektor Dozen Copy Share Image
I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are… — Regina Spektor Audition Copy Share Image
It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It… — Regina Spektor Able Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love… — Regina Spektor Band Copy Share Image
I don't think about, "How does this song that has more of an electronic mix prefix to a song that has a… — Regina Spektor Doe Copy Share Image
