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
Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten
The world that has made us can no longer contain us
I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners
I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat
And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us
You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.
Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk
It doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird songs about meatballs in refrigerators come into my head – I can’t help it.
We're living in a den of thieves
I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.
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.
Love what you have and you'll have more love.
Somebody's got to tell all the people to be like the water
I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.