A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
首歌
Song
That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.
这首歌是一个故事，它表明你很容易就会被贴上坏人的标签，即使你真正想做的是告诉那个坏人不要管你。
Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!
艺术家并不总是知道。几乎我录制的每首歌都是宣传人员挑选的热门专业，我不认为它会受到欢迎。我每次都错了!
Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.
合作就像出生一样。这首歌在某种程度上和我们每个人都很相似，但这是那种永远不会由我们中一个人拿着吉他弹出来的歌。
It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.
我感觉自己在公众视野中出现得越多，就会受到越多的批评。你需要有信心——这就是走出去，在一大群人面前唱一首歌所需要的。
Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.
在孟菲斯长大，听着各种各样的音乐，梦想着……那是我第一次写完整的歌，并把它谱成音乐。从那时起，我就一直忙于它。
I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.
我觉得这首歌很有意义。我不太喜欢噱头。我从来没有去过，因为它们不会长久。但是我喜欢一首歌，它讲述了一个故事，有一些肉，你知道，这意味着什么。
The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.
这些歌曲不一定是自传体的。很多歌曲都是多种影响的结合。这可能是我生活的一部分，或者是我感觉到的，或者是别人告诉我的。这一切都在一起。
I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.
我会有一首我喜欢几个月的歌，然后我会去做别的事情。这是不断变化的。有时我会回到很久没有听到的旧的。
We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.
我们都在踏着空气中一首歌的消逝之路，春天的花朵和冬雪的消逝之路，风和溪的消逝之路，心爱的脸庞的消逝之路。
With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that you love so much and put your own spin on it because you get such a strong feeling from the original.
任何封面，我都喜欢选择那些已经对我产生强烈影响的歌曲。所以有时候很难找到一首你非常喜欢的歌，然后把自己的想法融入其中，因为你能从原版中得到一种强烈的感觉。
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.
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。
I've been in a recording studio enough times to know that it is not the best place to multitask. Doing a couple of takes of a song and running out to check your email to talk to someone about video production really is not good.
我在录音室待过足够多的时间，所以我知道那不是一心多用的最佳场所。拍几首歌，然后跑出去查看电子邮件，和别人谈论视频制作，这真的不好。
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It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
我花了很长时间才学会如何写一首好歌。
However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.
不管这首歌有多长，我们花了多长时间来写它。
And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
他要给我一首歌，因为我是一个歌手，我想唱任何东西。
The song sounds like the ocean- it rises and falls, notes splash forward and harmonize with the sea behind me.
这首歌听起来像大海——它起伏不定，音符向前飞溅，与我身后的大海和谐一致。
Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.
这两首歌的演唱都非常非常激烈，同时也非常令人疲惫。
I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.
我总是试着写一首歌，我从来不只是想写一张唱片。