I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art. — Regina Spektor Art Copy Share Image
And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us — Regina Spektor Book Copy Share Image
I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners — Regina Spektor Born Copy Share Image
It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for. — Regina Spektor Art Copy Share Image
“Tried to head in the general direction of the bathroom/ The truest room in the whole damn house.” — Regina Spektor Damn House Copy Share Image
Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway. — Regina Spektor Arbitrary Copy Share Image
I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear. — Regina Spektor Fear Copy Share Image
I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more… — Regina Spektor Breakup 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 doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird… — Regina Spektor Classic Copy Share Image
Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible. — Regina Spektor Might 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
“We keep on burying our dead/ We keep on planting their bones in the ground/ But they won't grow/ The sun doesn't… — Regina Spektor Burying Copy Share Image
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… — Regina Spektor Cities Copy Share Image
As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get… — Regina Spektor Animal 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 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'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 spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an… — Regina Spektor 80s Copy Share Image
The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street… — Regina Spektor Beautiful Copy Share Image
I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or… — Regina Spektor Boards Copy Share Image
Yeah. My singing and my songs were very influenced by all of that. People would come up to me and ask, Is… — Regina Spektor Asks 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
“Well, you’re part of the human fabric of experience. You don’t have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don’t have… — Regina Spektor Empathy 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
I think that when somebody tells you something of value, a lot of the time there's this thing that happens, and I… — Regina Spektor Feels Copy Share Image
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… — Regina Spektor Cancer Copy Share Image
[A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something… — Regina Spektor Changed 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 Arms Copy Share Image