Regina Spektor Quotes

A man destined to hang can never drown

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 experience.

We’re trying to be faithful but we’re cheating, cheating, cheating

Somebody's got to tell all the people to be like the water

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. For whatever reason it needs to come out.

You decide if you're ready for something. It can come in the guise of, "Oh, I don't think I like this."

I think to me, all songs are stories.

You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature.

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

I think that so many people don't understand how easy it is to be broke, how easy it is to find yourself in a situation where you're in an absolutely foreign place.

I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.

You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.

I have the coolest parents.

Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.

As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.

Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.

I think that I'm always going to think that it's silly to value certain things that no matter how many people find it really valuable, it's always just going to seem a little silly to me.

It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.

God, our world is so complicated.

I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.

I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.

When I walk through the city, I just think that I see my family. I see us in everybody, you know? I see us.

I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.

You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.

I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker.

I don't think about, "How does this song that has more of an electronic mix prefix to a song that has a full orchestra next to a song that has other things?" I just work on it as-needed.

Never, never mind your bleeding heart.

I just love fiction. I love it.

Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten

This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

Today we're younger than we're ever gonna be