Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

  • -- Will Oldham 威尔·奥德姆

写歌是一种职业;所以这并不是试图从我与他人的互动中获取一些东西,出于某种原因,把它们给一个完全陌生的人听。我觉得别人那样做很无礼。

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My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

我的父母和祖父母一直从事教学、医疗或神职工作,所以我在某种程度上是在一种与他人串通一气的感觉中长大的,所以这样做没有任何好处;这是一个人成长的方式。

The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.

学习词汇的最后一个动机应该是给人留下深刻印象。语言是需要后天习得的,因为我们迫切需要它们——去传达,去触及,去表达我们内心的某种东西,去理解他人。

I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed.

我写作是为了成为某个东西的一部分——一个由词语和思想组成的世界,这些词语和思想有时会受到痛苦的批评,但有时会受到感激的爱,而且永远不会被摧毁。

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

如果我对一首歌有了一个想法,我就有了一个旋律。我首先是个音乐家。我不受滑板的限制。

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

写一首歌从来就不容易。这是我做过的最困难的事情。

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

演戏是世界上最兄弟姐妹般的职业。