Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.

  • -- William Bell 威廉·贝尔

在孟菲斯长大,听着各种各样的音乐,梦想着……那是我第一次写完整的歌,并把它谱成音乐。从那时起,我就一直忙于它。

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The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

这些歌曲不一定是自传体的。很多歌曲都是多种影响的结合。这可能是我生活的一部分,或者是我感觉到的,或者是别人告诉我的。这一切都在一起。

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

即使你对这首歌的角色很具体,但把它们放在一起更令人兴奋,把它们放在一起,让它们在歌曲的顺序之外成为一种冒险。

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

我一直认为,每次你去一个似乎是一种启示或与情感真相有强烈联系的地方,都能挖掘得更深一些,这很有趣。

This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

这是关于成长的另一件事:你遇到了所有关于爱、失去和心碎的陈词滥调。

I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.

我永远不会出卖任何人。我认为每个人都必须用自己的方式和时间去发现它。

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

成长是你明白你得到的是你给予的,而不是你被给予的。