Regina Spektor Quotes

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

I worked in a record store, but I realised I didn't want that. I still wanted to pursue a career - or a life - that my songs provided for me.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else.

I'd like to release solo songs on a regular basis, but it's pretty difficult for me to finish them.

I started out as a duo with Mis-Teeq's Sabrina Washington, and we worked for four or five years before signing a record deal. I had no money, and I was taking part-time jobs just to earn the train fare to get to rehearsals.

I think I see a lot of artists struggling to make their first album perfect, and I've been there.

I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.

I think it's exciting because it pushes you harder to write a great song. Even for established artists, it has to be really good now because people have so many other options.

There hasn't been any positive steps for moms in the NWSL. Now we're kind of getting our heads together, getting ideas together, and so now we can start somewhere as moms... Child care is not cheap. And if you look at our paychecks and you look at child care, there goes our paycheck. How are we going to eat?

A lot of people put out an album, and you never hear from them again. They're working a day job or doing whatever to survive through life.

I thought I was just going to be a songwriter for other people! And now I get to put out my own music, which is amazing.

I don't have to forsake my career as a musician. I know how to write songs - that's not going to leave me. But I think it's good to explore some other avenues.

Because I grew up in a single parent home with my mom, growing up, things weren't always the best.

My first job in a country band was after I moved to California.

I was kind of a sideman. Then I became kind of a singer-songwriter.

I was studying to be a doctor like every good Indian boy, and doing music on the side as a hobby. Then I started to get a little serious and record companies started giving me offers!

I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time.

It's a tough business, yes it is. But I've been fortunate. The only real hard times I had was when I was with Montague's Kentucky Serenades. We really had it tough then.

I just stopped playing. I did some screenwriting and got into the nature thing. Music kind of went away.

Songs can click together really quickly, and other times, they're really laborious and heavy-lifting.

We needed the support of our parents because we had no car, no money.

I'm a frustrated would-be architect who stumbled into the would-be business of making movies.

I just wanted to write about music if I wasn't going to make it.

Making albums is a very lonely process sometimes. Sitting around working on songs, feeling the pressure.