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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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

我一直在唱歌。因为第一天。我开始做音乐剧,你必须在音乐剧里唱歌,所以那是我接受大部分训练的地方。所以在舞台上唱歌,当你和其他歌手在一起的时候,你就不可避免地会变得更擅长唱歌。

When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

当我去阿富汗的时候,我意识到,由于随机的基因抽签,我得以幸免,因为我出生在那些有能力逃离阿富汗的人的家里。每次我去阿富汗,我都被这个问题所困扰。

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

你要学会妥协,学会相互理解。老实说,和两个男人在一个乐队让我为我的结婚做了很多准备!

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

医院当局告诉我,离开的病人留下的我的作品比任何其他作者留下的都多。

I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one.

我真的知道什么是对的,什么是错的,并把它应用到我的生活中。在家里,我是三个孩子中最大的。我的角色是负责任的。

Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else.

有时候把你的生活公之于众是个错误,但我也会像责怪其他人一样责怪自己。

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

我喜欢唱歌;与我内心的某种东西保持联系。

I have not told half of what I saw.

我所看到的一半还没有讲出来。