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Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

Regina Spektor

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Regina Spektor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 18
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Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Moscow
Russian SFSR
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I saw certain things that I think maybe other kids are protected from. Like, I saw my parents struggling. I knew that we were cutting out coupons and buying dented cans because they were cheaper. And all our furniture was from the garbage. It was just - and to me because I was a kid, all that stuff was really exciting.
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No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God.
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I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.
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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.
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As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.
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I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.
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This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath.
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This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.
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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.
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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.
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I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.
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God, our world is so complicated.
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And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going.
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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.
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Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.
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I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.
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I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.
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I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.
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It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.
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Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten
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