Regina Spektor Quotes

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

It doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird songs about meatballs in refrigerators come into my head – I can’t help it.

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

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

I don't really make records chronologically.

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

Not everything in the world is easy or powerful.

Yeah. My singing and my songs were very influenced by all of that. People would come up to me and ask, Is that a Billie Holiday song? I'd say, No, it's my song. The lyrics would be in my style, but the songs would be very jazzy.

When 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.

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

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

I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?'