Regina Spektor reflects on the Pussy Riot trial

“Here I am: I can play anything I want, I can say what I want, I have freedom of speech. And here are these three young women in a glass cage in a courtroom.”

Spektor said she believes Russian leaders fear freedom because it is so "contagious," empowering people to speak up. Overall, the trip was a very emotional return to the land of her birth, she added.