“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 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 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book',… — Regina Spektor 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
I have my own tastes and I have my my own... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I… — 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… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Most of the time I don't even talk about any direct lineage of songs, because I feel like it just chains them… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
This is the way I wanna die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
It's always interesting to me to see people projecting things, like people would say, "This record is much more mature than your… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature. — Regina Spektor 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 Copy Share Image
I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
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.… — 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… — Regina Spektor 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 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… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image