Quotes from Regina Spektor

Love what you have and you'll have more love.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

You are my sweetest downfall.

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.

Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.

I just love fiction. I love it.

Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten

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.

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.

This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.

I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected.

I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.

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.

Maybe one day you'll understand I don't want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

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.

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker.

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

I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.

You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.

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.