Regina Spektor discussed her new album, Home, before and after, with Melissa Block, exploring themes of loneliness, love, time, and home. Time plays a vital role in her music, allowing emotion and lyrics to breathe. The album title came to her pre-pandemic but took on deeper meaning during COVID-19. As a Jewish refugee from the Soviet Union, Spektor shares her evolving concept of home and reflects on the ongoing war in Ukraine, which deeply affects her, given her Ukrainian heritage.