I don't really make records chronologically. Regina Spektor More Quotes by Regina Spektor More Quotes From Regina Spektor Sometimes I make stuff, and even I don't like it. There's something about it that I don't really like, or annoys me. For whatever reason it needs to come out. Regina Spektor stuffsometimesneeds Not everything in the world is easy or powerful. Regina Spektor powerfuleasyworld I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable. Regina Spektor annoyedcomfortablethinking I always have kind of a few books going at the same time. Regina Spektor kindbook We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to curate your own emotional and artistic intake of life. Regina Spektor artisticemotionalworld There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of adverse reaction, and later, it became my favorite thing. Regina Spektor favorites-thingsartistfirsts 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 niceplaydoors I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live. Regina Spektor way-to-liveoceancities Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me.' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions. Regina Spektor storieswritinginteresting You are my sweetest downfall. Regina Spektor downfallfalling-in-lovelove I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures. Regina Spektor songbeautifuladventure 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. Regina Spektor wantwritingtrying 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 mtvcollegedark I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker. Regina Spektor slackerorganizehard-work 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 finding-yourselfpeoplethinking You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it. Regina Spektor albumsstatisticssong 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 my-familycitiesthinking 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 sillypeoplethinking I'm both kinds of a person; I have a side of me that's very light and very optimistic and finds everything surreal and hilarious, and then I have a side of me that's - I don't know what the right word is - tormented or just feels very overwhelmed. Regina Spektor optimisticlightsides You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career. Regina Spektor careersbabyart
