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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.

Regina Spektor

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Regina Spektor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 18
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Most of the time I don't even talk about any direct lineage of songs, because I feel like it just chains them down into my own consciousness, and the whole fun of them is being able to live in others' consciousness.
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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.
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The piano is not firewood -- yet.
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Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.
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No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God.
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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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The world that has made us can no longer contain us
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This is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood.
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There's something about trying to know when you really need to protect yourself, or else you're not going to get anything done, and sometimes to be really uncomfortable or agitated or annoyed or bored. Boredom is so important.
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I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.
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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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Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk
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I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.
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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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You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.
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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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Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.
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We're living in a den of thieves
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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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I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?'
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