Regina Spektor Quotes

If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.

Maybe someday, I'll just make, like, a complete on-demand record that everybody wants to hear. But that would be impossible and, also, I just changed my mind. I don't think I'll ever do that.

I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.

I really don't want to put more than a couple of records out a year, and I think that makes sense - on an artistic level, but also for my label.

One of the most harmful things in the music industry is 'record-by-committee,' where 10 people from the label gather around, and they make you write a 100 songs and decide which one's a hit. That takes the inspiration out of it.

I got offered publishing deals to write country music, but it was not what I wanted to do.

On my first album nobody asked me for a lot of advice. It was a producer's album. We were sent the same type songs with stock melodies. It was my first album and I was happy to do about anything they'd ask me.

I've never gone to a singer with a song and said 'why don't you try this?' or tried to get a record like that. My head just wasn't there.

I'm trying to give people the chance to put out their music without the bullshit pressures of other labels.

I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

I've got more creative control when I do music.

If the record was picked up by Dot Records, I would imagine that they would have wanted both sides of the record to be something by Lou alone which would account for the dropping of 'So Blue'.