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She joked that she stayed up until 3:30 a.m. writing a song, trying not to wake the neighbors, but never wrote anything down. She still doesn’t.
“I try to be better now, at least about recording little things, because sometimes I still have things just disappear,” Spektor says in an interview with All Things Considered host Audie Cornish. “You always think, ‘Oh, I’ll never forget that. That’s so obvious.’ And then, of course, you forget it.”
For a Regina Spektor fan, the fact that there are “lost” Spektor songs is scary. But there is hope. “I am so lucky, because almost from the beginning, people would record the shows,” Spektor says. “I am just so thankful to them, first of all, for taking the time and putting it up online and sharing it with other listeners, but also mainly [for] myself, because there are so many songs I would not know how to play. It gives me so much relief to know that they’re somewhere.”
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”It’s easy to see why fans of the 32-year-old singer-songwriter – whether the (female) colleague who told me “I’ve sobbed with heartbreak watching her” or the (male) colleague who admitted to holding a crush or perhaps even Barack Obama, who’s seen her play live twice – might still want to parse her lyrics for a sense of who she really is……..
Spektor is a newlywed, but of her recent marriage to Moldy Peaches guitarist Jack Dishel she won’t say anything; and nor, understandably, is she keen to discuss the drowning of her cellist Daniel Cho in Lake Geneva the day before she played the Montreux jazz festival in 2010, or the recent death of another close friend. But she does say, turning hushed and sounding understandably uncomfortable: “I’m definitely in the club of people who have experienced great tragedy in their life. Nothing bad had ever really happened to me but now I’m in this club – and it’s a really big club. I don’t think I was prepared for the level of pain I’ve been experiencing in the last few years. As you go through life you try to take all the things that come your way and process them with as much strength and kindness as you can muster. Obviously it transforms you as a person, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a final definition.”“
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Wyatt Mason has written a lovely new 3-page article about Regina for the New York Times. It seems like it’s becoming a tradition, because he also interviewed her/ did a write-up before ‘far’ was released three years ago! It’s definitely a must-read. Go check it out:
You guys! This article RULES!!!
“Ending with Jessica, a gentle ditty over acoustic guitar, What We Saw From the Cheap Seats won’t be to everyone’s taste. It’s perhaps too odd for the uninitiated and not odd enough for old school fans, but it once again proves Regina Spektor to be a unique, bold and quite brilliant musician”
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Regina to NME in new interview. (via reginapolis)
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Thanks for sharing, reginapolis!
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myStory: Regina Spektor interview
Russian-born Jewish singer-songwriter Regina Spektor reflects on her immigration to New York in 1989—from the fantasies she and her cousin had about moving to the tropics to the realities of adjusting to life in the Bronx, where their new Jewish community became an extension of her family
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New interview with HIAS!
Regina Spektor interview and Folding Chair performance on Altas Horas in Brazil 16/10/2010
