As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

  • -- Richard John Thompson 理查德·约翰·汤普森

作为作者,你总是在歌曲中出现。如果你接近人类的样子,你就在写共同的经历。我们都做着同样的事情,所以如果你钉住了某人,那么你也钉住了自己。

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If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.

如果我不得不放弃其他一切,只保留工作的一个方面,我就必须继续写作,因为我热爱写作。是的,我也喜欢表演。但我不能放弃写作材料。

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.

在我看来,他们比我们更有人情味,对彼此更友好。但也许这仅仅是因为他们觉得自己比我们更不幸。

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

做一个人,就是不停地摇动着生存之笼的铁栏门,大声喊道:“这是干什么用的?”

Love is not who can see yourself with. It is who you can't see yourself without.

爱情不是谁都能看见自己跟谁在一起。没有他,你就看不到自己。

I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

我不认为你会对任何事情感到高兴,除非你已经做了。

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

写作就像怀胎。