A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
创造
Creation
I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.
我讨厌初稿，而且从来没有变得容易过。人们总是想知道他们想拥有什么样的超级英雄能力。我希望有人能打开我的大脑，拿出整个初稿放在我面前，这样我就能专注于第二稿、第三稿和第四稿。
Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that I grew up listening to and that first drew me in. And then I always try to find somewhere for a bluesy guitar sound, because that's also what I love. Musically, I'm always finding my way home.
我做的每一个演示都有一个曼陀林或共鸣器——一些我从小听的蓝草音乐或古典乡村音乐的元素，第一次吸引了我。然后我总是试图找到一个地方，为蓝色吉他的声音，因为这也是我喜欢的。在音乐方面，我总是能找到回家的路。
There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?
有两种类型的设计师:一种非常高兴被锁在办公室里，周围都是自己的小圈子。他们最不需要做的事情就是去看巡回演出;他们会去爬山。我不仅喜欢它，我想，你如何设计适用于生活的东西——除非你生活在其中?
The music that I make is built on layers upon layers of musical ideas. I want to keep it fun and fresh to where listeners won't get everything from just one listen. They can go back to it months, weeks, or even years later and hear something that they didn't ever hear before. That's what it's all about.
我创作的音乐是建立在层层音乐理念之上的。我想保持它的乐趣和新鲜的听众不会得到一切从一个听。他们可以回想几个月，几周，甚至几年之后，听到一些他们从未听到过的东西。就是这样。
The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.
这个伟大的时刻似乎只是一个产品，让你自己通过，得到很多东西在你的生活中，写很多东西，而不是编辑自己。对于任何以任何方式写作或创作的人来说，这都是一个很好的学习机会，让他们能够创作出一些没有好坏之分的东西。
Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more critical about it, because there's no one else in the room to tell me, 'That's really not translating. I'm not getting what you're saying.' So, I'm constantly rewriting it, thinking, 'No, that's fine,' and going back.
独自写作，我把它扩展得更广。我会花更多的时间在一首歌上。我对此更加挑剔，因为房间里没有其他人告诉我，‘这真的不是翻译。我不明白你在说什么。所以，我不断地重写它，心里想着，‘不，没关系，’然后就回去了。
I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.
我一直认为之间的平衡的心里,知道它是做什么和侧面,真的没有一个线索必须小心维护,因为如果你写太故意那么冷,如果你写太不知不觉你写胡说,没人能理解。
If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them.But that’s not happening here. You’ve got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.
如果你想让人们表现得更好，你就奖励他们，对吧?奖金，佣金，他们自己的真人秀。激励他们。但这并没有发生在这里。你的动机是为了提高思维和加速创造力，而它的作用恰恰相反。它使思维迟钝，阻碍创造力。
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
创造力就是把事物联系起来。当你问有创造力的人他们是如何做某件事的，他们会感到有点内疚，因为他们并没有真正做这件事，他们只是看到了一些东西。过了一会儿，他们觉得很明显。这是因为他们能够把自己的经历联系起来，并综合新的事物。
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
我当时并没有意识到，但事实证明，被苹果公司解雇是我所经历过的最好的事情。成功的沉重被重新开始的轻松所取代，对每件事都不那么确定。它解放了我，让我进入了人生中最有创造力的时期之一。
The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.
写作的过程，我做事的方式是我做任何节拍的感觉，任何节拍告诉我要做的。通常，当节拍响起时，我几乎会立刻想到一个钩子或我想要说唱的主题。在四到八小节的演奏中，我就像，‘哦，好吧。这就是我想做的。
I've always been into 'fast-paced, don't bore 'em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.' You know: tell a story the way I want to hear a story. I find it more rewarding to write for kids, but I also find it a little easier, because you can just let loose a little bit more in terms of fantasy and stuff.
我一直喜欢“快节奏，不要让他们感到无聊”，继续前进，坚持讲故事。“你知道:用我想听的方式讲故事。我发现为孩子们写作更有价值，但我也发现写作更容易一些，因为你可以在幻想和其他方面放松一点。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Simply seek happiness, and you are not likely to find it. Seek to create and love without regard to your happiness, and you will likely be happy much of the time.
简单地追求幸福，你不太可能找到它。不管你的幸福与否，努力去创造和爱吧，你很可能会在大部分时间里感到幸福。
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
梦是一种纯粹的想象行为，它证明所有人都有一种创造力，如果在醒着的时候有这种创造力，那么每个人都会成为但丁或莎士比亚。
The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.
我们在组织中最害怕的事情——波动、干扰、不平衡——是创造力的主要来源。
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.
我们常常在不知不觉中阅读，以寻求一种比我们自己更有独创性的思想。
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
写诗的冲动就像发痒一样。当痒得够烦人的时候，你就挠它。
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
一本书不仅仅是材料的总和。它是人类思想和手的产物。