Latest Regina Spektor Quotes from Interviews

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• Never, never mind your bleeding heart.

  Regina Spektor

  Heart, Mind, Bleeding

  "Regina Spektor: 'I See My Family ... In Everybody'". Interview with Audie Cornish, wunc.org. October 3, 2016.

• God, our world is so complicated.

  Regina Spektor

  Our World, World, Complicated

  "Regina Spektor: 'I See My Family ... In Everybody'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.kosu.org. October 3, 2016.

• 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.

  Regina Spektor

  Silly, Thinking, People

  "Regina Spektor: 'I See My Family ... In Everybody'". Interview with Audie Cornish, kosu.org. October 3, 2016.

• All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They want to be softer than the storms around. You feel them through the windows and the doors.

  Regina Spektor

  Nice, Play, Doors

  "Regina Spektor: 'I See My Family ... In Everybody'". Interview with Audie Cornish, kosu.org. October 3, 2016.

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

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, Cities, My Family

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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.

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, People, Finding Yourself

  "Regina Spektor: 'I See My Family ... In Everybody'". Interview with Audie Cornish, kosu.org. October 3, 2016.

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

  Regina Spektor

  Parent, Watches, Painful

  Source: www.npr.org

• I saw certain things that I think maybe other kids are protected from. Like, I saw my parents struggling. I knew that we were cutting out coupons and buying dented cans because they were cheaper. And all our furniture was from the garbage. It was just - and to me because I was a kid, all that stuff was really exciting.

  Regina Spektor

  Struggle, Kids, Cutting

  Source: www.npr.org

• I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union.

  Regina Spektor

  Fun, Book, Kids

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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.

  Regina Spektor

  Breakup, Writing, Interesting

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I really love. But for the most part, overwhelmingly, my tribes are the surrealists and the storytellers, in song and literature.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

  Regina Spektor

  Play, Fiction, Stories

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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

  Regina Spektor

  Obsession, 80s

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an immigrant bubble and we didn't have MTV or cable, so I kind of discovered the '80s when I was already older, maybe in college. And I continued to have this romantic obsession with all those films and there's this sound I hear in my head and it's kind of this bittersweet romantic, dark sound.

  Regina Spektor

  Dark, College, Mtv

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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

  Regina Spektor

  Art, Arbitrary, Art Is

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• It's always interesting to me to see people projecting things, like people would say, "This record is much more mature than your other record" and I would think, "Well, this record has more songs from when I was 18 on it than the other one."

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Thinking, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Growing, Way

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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

  Regina Spektor

  Baby, Art, Careers

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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

  Regina Spektor

  Hard Work, Slacker, Organize

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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

  Regina Spektor

  Art, Parent

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• There's something about trying to know when you really need to protect yourself, or else you're not going to get anything done, and sometimes to be really uncomfortable or agitated or annoyed or bored. Boredom is so important.

  Regina Spektor

  Boredom, Annoyed, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, Annoyed, Comfortable

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Regina Spektor

  Processing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Regina Spektor

  Animal, Want, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com