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 SpektorThe other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'
Regina SpektorMost of the time I don't even talk about any direct lineage of songs, because I feel like it just chains them down into my own consciousness, and the whole fun of them is being able to live in others' consciousness.
Regina SpektorMaybe 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.
Regina SpektorYou make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.
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