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I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.

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Regina Spektor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 18
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Moscow
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Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.
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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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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.
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Its not like I have all the answers.
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I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.
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Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk
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It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.
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God, our world is so complicated.
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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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I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.
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The piano is not firewood -- yet.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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