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No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God.

Regina Spektor

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Regina Spektor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 18
Composer
Guitarist
Lyricist
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Moscow
Russian SFSR
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It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.
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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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We're living in a den of thieves
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Its not like I have all the answers.
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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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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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Yeah. My singing and my songs were very influenced by all of that. People would come up to me and ask, Is that a Billie Holiday song? I'd say, No, it's my song. The lyrics would be in my style, but the songs would be very jazzy.
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I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.
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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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It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.
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God, our world is so complicated.
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I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners
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It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.
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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.
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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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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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You decide if you're ready for something. It can come in the guise of, Oh, I don't think I like this.
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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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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?
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