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 More Quotes by Regina Spektor More Quotes From Regina Spektor Taking steps is easy Regina Spektor different easy steps No one laughs at God in a hospital. Regina Spektor hospitals laughing Its not like I have all the answers. Regina Spektor answers 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. Regina Spektor yesterday writing song And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us Regina Spektor history-books book [A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, in that moment you forget how it was and it's this new way. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you had, then those get all turned and changed. So in the end, I think, it just becomes it's own thing and really I think a song could be recorded a million different ways and so what my records are, it just happened like that, but it's not like, this is how I planned it from the very beginning because I have no idea, I can't remember. Regina Spektor real song thinking Maybe one day you’ll understand I don’t want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand. Regina Spektor one-day want hands A man destined to hang can never drown Regina Spektor destined men I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift. Regina Spektor tools mind writing Maybe you should kiss someone who is nice, or lick a rock, or both. Regina Spektor rocks kissing nice Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles. Regina Spektor pickles jars If somebody wanted to go and find songs of mine to fill an iPod, that aren't on any records. They could probably find dozens of songs besides the ones that are on records. Regina Spektor ipods records song I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room. Regina Spektor nice song jobs I have my own tastes and I have my my own... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable to somebody else, which I've come to realise. Regina Spektor taste song thinking I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book', and I just think it doesn't do any good for anybody. Regina Spektor hate song book It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for. Regina Spektor privilege care artist I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story. Regina Spektor narrative stories thinking I think to me, all songs are stories. Regina Spektor stories song thinking No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God. Regina Spektor laughing We’re trying to be faithful but we’re cheating, cheating, cheating Regina Spektor faithful trying cheating
