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I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.

I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.

Regina Spektor
Thinking, Done, Records
Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

Regina Spektor
Song, Real, Writing
Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

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
Cities, Space, Giants
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.

Regina Spektor
Jars, Pickles
Song: Reading Time with Pickle, Album: Songs, 2002

We’re trying to be faithful but we’re cheating, cheating, cheating

Regina Spektor
Cheating, Faithful, Trying
Song: Hero Of The Story

I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.

Regina Spektor
Song, Jobs, Nice
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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.

Regina Spektor
Love You, Heart, Blood
Song: On The Radio, Album: Begin to Hope, 2006

We're living in a den of thieves

Regina Spektor
Thieves, Dens

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

Regina Spektor
Insanity, Process, Shows
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Regina Spektor
Eyelashes, Sweat, Perfect
Song: Folding Chair, Album: Far, 2009

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

Regina Spektor
Mind, Headphones
Song: Eet, Album: Far, 2009

[A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, in that moment you forget how it was and it's this new way. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you had, then those get all turned and changed. So in the end, I think, it just becomes it's own thing and really I think a song could be recorded a million different ways and so what my records are, it just happened like that, but it's not like, this is how I planned it from the very beginning because I have no idea, I can't remember.

Regina Spektor
Song, Real, Thinking

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