I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs. Regina Spektor More Quotes by Regina Spektor More Quotes From Regina Spektor You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career. Regina Spektor careers baby art God, our world is so complicated. Regina Spektor our-world complicated world I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka. Regina Spektor fairytale love-story stories I just love fiction. I love it. Regina Spektor fiction Never, never mind your bleeding heart. Regina Spektor bleeding mind heart I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories. Regina Spektor stories fiction thinking I remember somebody handed me Siddhartha when I was I think 18, and I started to read it and I just really didn't like it, and I left it and it was just gathering dust for years. Then maybe five years later, the world shook as I read it. Regina Spektor dust years thinking It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things. Regina Spektor painful parent watches Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway. Regina Spektor art-is arbitrary art I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art. Regina Spektor parent art 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 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 people thinking You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature. Regina Spektor growing song way 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 doe song thinking 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 want littles animal Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out. Regina Spektor processing I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it. Regina Spektor 80s obsession 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 I have the coolest parents. Regina Spektor parent You decide if you're ready for something. It can come in the guise of, "Oh, I don't think I like this." Regina Spektor guise ready thinking
