I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

  • -- John Mayer 约翰·迈尔

我有一种强迫症,就像一个清醒的、正在康复的瘾君子取代了他的毒瘾。只是我从来没有上瘾。

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It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.

我突然想到,每一件艺术作品都是一个提喻,没有办法回避它。一个人所做的每一件创造性的工作都只能代表某件事情整体的一个方面。我想不出有什么例外。

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

我想写的是当你的毒瘾不再对你隐瞒真相的那一刻。当你的整个生活崩溃的时候。那一刻,你必须以某种方式选择你的生活将会是什么样子。

You know the stories of a woman saying to Churchill, 'Sir, you're drunk,' and he said to her, 'And you're ugly, but in the morning I'll be sober.' I was really excited to do that scene, but I did get slapped.

你知道一个女人对丘吉尔说:“先生,你喝醉了。”“拍这一幕我真的很兴奋,但我确实挨了一巴掌。

Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.

有时候在黑人文化中,作为一个独立的女人长大会被误解为不需要男人。我认为这是错误的。我想我们都需要一个人。

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

我在哥伦比亚大学成瘾和药物滥用国家中心工作。作为董事会中仅有的两名正在戒毒的瘾君子之一,我自豪地坐在那里。

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

我觉得我比年轻的时候好多了,因为我在探索深刻的抒情材料,我已经清醒了一段时间。