Spektor: "I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift."

Spektor: "I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?"

Spektor: "I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear."

Spektor: "When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good."

Spektor: "It's not like I have all the answers."

Spektor: "You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea."

Spektor: "It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body."

Spektor: "Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience."

Spektor: "Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible."

Spektor: "I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room."

Spektor: "This is the way I wanna die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song."