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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.

Regina Spektor

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Regina Spektor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 18
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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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Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.
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I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.
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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 am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.
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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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Its not like I have all the answers.
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Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.
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