Luckily, there's enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them.
Regina SpektorI 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 SpektorWhen you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.
Regina SpektorI 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