Regina Spektor Quotes (1980-)

“Love is the answer to a question I have forgotten, but I know I've been asked. And the answer has got to be love.”

“A man destined to fry
Can never ever ever die...
In any other way but frying.

Lucky that I'm dying
By hanging and not drowning.”

“I've got a perfect body
But sometimes I forget
I've got a perfect body, because my eyelashes catch my sweat
Yes they do, they do.”

“A man destined to hang
Can never drown,
A man destined to hang
Can never ever drown.
A man destined to drown
Can never burn...”

“Imagine you go away
On a business trip one day
And when you come back home
Your children have grown
And you never made your wife moan”

“Two birds on a wire
One tries to fly away
And the other watches him close from that wire
He says he wants to as well
But he is a liar”

“I'm the king's thirty-second son
There's thirty-one others just like me
There's thirty-one others on the way
There's thirty-one others after that...”

“No one laughs at God in a hospital,
No one laughs at God in a war,
No one's laughing at God when they're starving or freezing or so very poor...”

“On the radio
We heard November Rain
That solo's awful long
But it's a good refrain”

“How could it go on when I don't exist? I don't exist...
So now that we've got that straight
Doesn't mean that I can fly
Doesn't mean I that I can go do whatever I want.”

“Pavlov's Daughter,
woke up in the morning,
hear the bell ring,
and something deep inside of her,
makes her want to salivate,
so she lays there drooling on her pillow...”

“It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song
You can't believe it; you were always singing along
It was so easy and the words so sweet
You can't remember; you try to move your feet.”

“On the day that Daniel Cowman stopped existing
The world should have ended right then and there
At precisely four-fifteen when he stopped existing
The world should have ended
How could it go on?”

“People are just people
They shouldn't make you nervous
The world is everlasting, it's coming and it's going
If you don't toss your plastic
The streets won't be so plastic
And if you kiss somebody then both of you get practice”

“This is how it works —
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath.”