Regina Spektor Quotes

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

One man’s trash is another man’s dissertation.

I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.

I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

I will say, though, that San Francisco is a very friendly city. It's the kind of place where people smile at you and you can strike up conversations on the street, so there's always an adjustment when I come back to New York. If I smile at someone on the street in New York, then they think there's something up - like, "Why is she smiling?"

I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it.

Americans give you the violence, Europeans give you the sex. I think people have been saying that since the 70s. And I think it's kind of pathetic that Americans are still stuck - on the shock value of violence, when sex is such a natural thing for everybody.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.

I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.

It's always interesting to me to see people projecting things, like people would say, "This record is much more mature than your other record" and I would think, "Well, this record has more songs from when I was 18 on it than the other one."

I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.

As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know?

A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.

I think people hear the question they want to hear.

What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.

People in China criticized President Obama for chewing gum while entering the economic summit in Beijing. They're saying he looked like a rapper. Then again, to be fair, in China I look like a rapper.

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is.

In regards to being female, I don't really think about it in the same way that other people do. I prefer to focus on my job rather than my gender. I'm still amazed that people think it's a big deal.

Everything that I think is good is bad, and everything that I think is bad is good.

I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.