Its not like I have all the answers. Regina Spektor More Quotes by Regina Spektor More Quotes From Regina Spektor I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything. Regina Spektor glassesperfectsong Taking steps is easy Regina Spektor differenteasysteps No one laughs at God in a hospital. Regina Spektor hospitalslaughing 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 yesterdaywritingsong And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us Regina Spektor history-booksbook [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 realsongthinking Maybe one day you’ll understand I don’t want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand. Regina Spektor one-daywanthands A man destined to hang can never drown Regina Spektor destinedmen I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift. Regina Spektor toolsmindwriting Maybe you should kiss someone who is nice, or lick a rock, or both. Regina Spektor rockskissingnice Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles. Regina Spektor picklesjars 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 ipodsrecordssong 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 nicesongjobs 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 tastesongthinking 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 hatesongbook It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for. Regina Spektor privilegecareartist 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 narrativestoriesthinking I think to me, all songs are stories. Regina Spektor storiessongthinking 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 faithfultryingcheating
