Regina Spektor Quotes

I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.

If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

It's weird because if I'm not doing anything, I get antsy. I feel like I always have to be doing something.

I hate sitting still.

I'm on my feet, pacing around the room, punching a fist into my palm, which I stop doing when I realise how drama queen it feels.

Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.

I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal.

I am not minimizing emotions. Emotions are an important part of life.

Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way.

Unless you seek out help for your symptoms, you'll never really know that that's not how everyone feels. You go through life thinking that this is how you feel in certain situations and that I can ease the tensions by doing this or that.

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

I'm pretty drunk and bored with yelling at the stone walls that are your minds.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

I deal in emotions. It's the harmonic side that's important. That's the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I've got to keep at it.

Understand that all emotions serve you. Those you once thought of as negative emotions are merely calls to action. For example, if you feel frustrated it means that you believe things could be better, and they're not. This is a call to action telling you there's something you must do to make this better now. This "negative" emotion is actually a gift if you use it effectively.

Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.

While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.

Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it.

I'm very, very in touch with my emotions.

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.

If you're working on something that isn't very demanding, isn't very fulfilling, then you have all this energy to burn, and you can go crazy.