I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it. — Regina Spektor 80s 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'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists. — Regina Spektor Fiction Copy Share Image
I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker. — Regina Spektor Hard 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
It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body. — Regina Spektor Body Copy Share Image
It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things. — Regina Spektor Child Copy Share Image
Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out. — Regina Spektor Processing Copy Share Image
We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to… — Regina Spektor Art Copy Share Image
I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so… — Regina Spektor Care 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
“May I propose a little toast? For all the ones who hurt the most. For all the friends that we have lost.… — Regina Spektor Applause 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 Growing 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 My own 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 Mind 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
“Don't tell your secrets to anyone/ Because ideas are vulnerable/ As soon as you say your idea out loud/ Then it can… — Regina Spektor Ideas 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 Bars 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 Facts 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
“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
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've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are… — Regina Spektor Accomplish 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
Maybe one day you’ll understand I don’t want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand. — Regina Spektor Hands Copy Share Image
When I walk through the city, I just think that I see my family. I see us in everybody, you know? I… — Regina Spektor Cities Copy Share Image
Maybe you should kiss someone who is nice, or lick a rock, or both. — Regina Spektor Advice 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 Angry Copy Share Image
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh lord please don't let me be misunderstood. — Regina Spektor Intention Copy Share Image
I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka. — Regina Spektor Fairytale 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 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 Bigs 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 Adventure 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
“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 I'm always going to think that it's silly to value certain things that no matter how many people find… — Regina Spektor Certain 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 Able 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 Beatles Copy Share Image
