All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.

  • -- John Mayer 约翰·迈尔

我想用一首歌来表达我的想法。

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If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

如果只是尖叫——我知道这听起来很荒谬——那就老了。但有时,当真的发生混乱时,就像身处战区一样,这是令人兴奋的。你只是在人群中奔跑,没有人知道发生了什么。

I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all.

我不承认他病得很重。和你如此亲密的人无法醒来,这种想法是完全无法理解的。然后医生进来了……莫瑞斯已经没有脑子了。没有任何活动。

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

我认为一首歌,当它起作用的时候,更不用说一首长调的音乐,甚至一首歌都是自言自语的东西,但在理想情况下,它有自己的语言。

Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.

在某种程度上,由于水门事件,我就像一块磁铁,吸引着电话、信息和建议。

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

我从来没有写过政治歌曲。歌曲不能拯救世界。这些我都经历过了。

But I do have an idea in my head before I go in about what I'm going to do.

但是在我决定做什么之前,我的脑子里有一个想法。