“You've spent half of your life Trying to fall behind You're using your headphones Just to drown out your mind.” — Regina Spektor 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 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… — Regina Spektor Copy Share
I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body. — Regina Spektor 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, because you… — Regina Spektor 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 until you cry, you cry until you laugh. And everyone must breathe until their dying breath. This is how it works: you peer inside yourself, you take the things you like and try to love the things you… — Regina Spektor Copy Share
I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was… — Regina Spektor 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 where, in one way, you are still very much yourself, and in some ways you become even more connected to the rest of yourself. All of a sudden, you just get more connected to your child self, and… — Regina Spektor Copy Share
I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
