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God, our world is so complicated.

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
Complicated
World

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It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.
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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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I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.
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A man destined to hang can never drown
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It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.
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I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union.
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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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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 piano is not firewood -- yet.
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Its not like I have all the answers.
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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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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 used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.
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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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