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. Regina Spektor Read Quote
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. Regina Spektor Read Quote
I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything. Regina Spektor Read Quote
I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It’s such a gift. Regina Spektor Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the record, the final masters, the artwork. Basically, I hand them a record. Regina Spektor Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
