My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

  • -- Etta James 埃塔·詹姆斯

我妈妈总是告诉我,即使一首歌已经被唱了一千遍,你仍然可以把你自己的东西带进去。我想我做到了。

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Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

现在,它并没有影响到我的音乐,除了我没有时间去写它。这和我刚开始住在家里没有什么不同。我会在下午弹吉他,然后我的妈妈或爸爸会回家,然后我不得不辞职。

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.

很多人会喜欢我继续唱歌……你唱到一定程度,或多或少……你的全部技能,你想开始生活的工作。

The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.

未来就在这里,现在,过去充满了实际的行动,真实的历史。乌托邦者的骨头上几乎没有肉来维持一个民族在坟墓时代。

If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.

如果我敢,我想那一定是情感上的。我试着让事情对我自己有趣,做一些挑战我的事情。

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

世界上有两种人:一种人需要别人告诉他,另一种人则完全靠自己。

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

这是撕裂你锁链的时刻,是灵魂绽放的时刻。

I'm singing because it's the best feeling in the world.

我唱歌是因为这是世界上最棒的感觉。

Do what you're told, and everything will be all right.

照吩咐去做,一切都会好的。