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I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.
Regina Spektor
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Regina Spektor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 18
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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 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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There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of adverse reaction, and later, it became my favorite thing.
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Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.
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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 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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We're living in a den of thieves
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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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It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.
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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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Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten
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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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All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They want to be softer than the storms around. You feel them through the windows and the doors.
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A man destined to hang can never drown
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So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.
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Its not like I have all the answers.
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The world that has made us can no longer contain us
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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.
Regina Spektor
Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me.' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions.
Regina Spektor
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.
Regina Spektor
