It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things. — Regina Spektor Child Copy Share Image
It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body. — Regina Spektor Body 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
I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka. — Regina Spektor Fairytale 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
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
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
You peer inside yourself, You take the things you like, And try to love the things you took, And then you take… — Regina Spektor Love 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
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
“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 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
Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible. — 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 was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh,… — 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 Confession 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
When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I… — Regina Spektor Art Copy Share Image
I remember somebody handed me Siddhartha when I was I think 18, and I started to read it and I just really… — 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 Facts 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
“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
Maybe you should kiss someone who is nice, or lick a rock, or both. — Regina Spektor Advice 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
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 think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable. — Regina Spektor Agitated 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 Album Copy Share Image
I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment… — Regina Spektor Gay 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
I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do… — Regina Spektor Chance Copy Share Image
“I'm walking through the city Like a drunk, but not With my slip showing a little Like a drunk, but not And… — Regina Spektor Drunk Copy Share Image
And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the… — Regina Spektor Artwork 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
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
