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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
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Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Moscow
Russian SFSR
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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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Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.
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God, our world is so complicated.
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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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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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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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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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Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.
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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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I think that I'm always going to think that it's silly to value certain things that no matter how many people find it really valuable, it's always just going to seem a little silly to me.
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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'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.
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We're living in a den of thieves
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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 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 think that so many people don't understand how easy it is to be broke, how easy it is to find yourself in a situation where you're in an absolutely foreign place.
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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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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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The world that has made us can no longer contain us
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