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Trying
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
试着去猜测(大众)观众想要什么，然后又试着去满足他们的需求，这通常不是得到好东西的好方法。
Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be... When all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.
为什么我要努力成为我不想成为的人……当我想要的一切都在那里，等着我的那一刻，我说我知道我是谁。
I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.
我想让我所投入到这个世界上的每一件东西都成为我想要改变的东西。
Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.
推出商业作品并推广它们，并试图将它们卖给人们，并不一定意味着成为一名艺术家。
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
谁还记得爱?这就像在地窖里唤起玫瑰的香味。你可能会看到一朵玫瑰，但绝不会看到香水。
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
金爸爸和金妈妈代表着最好的男人和女人，代表着最好的婚姻，代表着我们想成为的那种人。
I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.
我喜欢表演;我总是想当小丑来给我的兄弟姐妹们留下深刻的印象。我想那是因为我是一窝里的小个子。
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
对我来说，最令我兴奋的事情之一仍然是拿着吉他或钢琴坐下来，不知道从哪里冒出来想要创作一首歌。
Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.
继续试。照顾好你周围的小圆圈。当你成功地与他们相处时，向外迈出一小步。
My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.
我妈妈总是提供足球，所以人们总是来敲我的门，想把我弄出去，这样我们就可以玩了。
I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.
我一直在努力做出让自己不舒服的选择。只要你不舒服，就意味着你在成长。
I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.
我不会有意识地追求为排行榜做点什么。只是现在不在我的范围内。我宁愿把针扎进眼睛里。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
当然，思想开放的问题在于，人们会坚持走过去，并试图把东西放进去。
I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.
我小时候很笨手笨脚的。我是一个试图融入一个圆圈的正方形，但它从来没有为我工作过。我越努力，摔得越重。由于某种原因，我成为了一个真正的目标，我被殴打，被辱骂。
When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
当我开始写作的时候，我认为文学被包含在一个泡沫中，这个泡沫以某种方式漂浮在报纸评论的世界之上。但我越来越有兴趣尝试在我的作品中融入一些这样的世界。
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
我总是试图达到一种超然的境界，一种浪漫的境界，但是是以一种非传统的，亵渎神灵的方式。去到那个浪漫、感人、令人心碎的地方，却要经历很多亵渎神明的行为。
I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.
恐怕我还在努力寻找平衡。尤其是现在每个人都想了解我。我发现我必须变得越来越孤僻，在公开场合和私下场合都要挑三拣四。
It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.
这句话的意思是:“要把我送到洛杉机去，我真是费了九牛二虎之力。我恨了好久，但是现在我在这儿过得很好。”