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'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 Copy Share Image
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
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
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 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
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
Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love… — 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
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 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 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 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
