Regina Spektor Quotes

There is a cleansing humility about doubt.

I don't feel I'm better than any man out there or that I have anything to teach, and the more I learn about myself, the less comfortable I feel saying anything at all.

I have never been 100% confident that I am right about anything.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

Writing is so humbling; there's no confidence involved.

I don't want to sound self-righteous, and I don't want to act like I have it all put together.

I really don't think I have anything special to say.

I think it's very important to keep in the back of your mind: 'What if I'm wrong?'

Do not feel certain of anything.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads. (from “Mysteries, Yes”)

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

I have no talent for certainty.

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.