Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor
Regina Ilyinichna Spektor is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She was born in the Soviet Union where she began classical training on the piano at the age of 6. When she was 9 years old, her family emigrated to the United States where she continued her classical training into her teenage years; she began to write original songs shortly thereafter...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth18 February 1980
CityMoscow, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.
Somebody's got to tell all the people to be like the water
I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners
Maybe you should kiss someone who is nice, or lick a rock, or both.
Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten
I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected.
It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.
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?
I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.
No one laughs at God in a hospital,
You're using your headphones to drown out your mind
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.
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.
I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.