我认为这是一个非常强大的东西 I think that something that's really powerful
当你能利用周围的世界， is when you're able to use the world around you,
你自己的经历，简单的事情-- your own experience, simple things--
一个电话——但是利用你周围的世界小镜头大世界资源论坛 www.xjtdsj.com 感谢关注 a phone call-- but using the world around you
激发你开始写作。 to provoke you to begin to write.
我认为这是一个非常有效的方法 And I think that's a really powerful way
连接并知道你想要什么 to connect and know what you want
说是因为你在某种程度上被它感动了。 to say because you're personally touched by it in some way.
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每件事都会导致每件事，这是肯定的 Everything leads to everything, and that is definitely
真相。 the truth.
我知道，即使是我写过非常糟糕的歌的时候-- Even the times that I've written really bad songs, I know--
很好，你知道吗？ and you know, what's good?
有什么不好的，对吧？ What's bad, right?
那是什么意思？ What does that mean?
什么是对的？ What's right?
发生了什么？ What's wrong?
那是什么意思？ What does that mean?
所以我通常不喜欢对事物进行分类或判断 So I usually don't like to categorize or judge things
因为我 with those generalizations because I
不要认为它真的是准确的，它是感知。 don't think that it really is accurate and it's perception.
这是透视图。 It's perspective.
这是我的意见，对吧？ It's opinion, right?
但我知道也许我写了一些 But I know that maybe I've written something that I
没有感觉到和你有联系。 didn't feel as connected to.
我们就这么说吧。 Let's call it that.
[笑] [LAUGHS]
即使发生了这种事，我离开了我的钢琴或工作室 Even when that's happened and I've left my piano or my studio
或者我留下了我在创造这个东西的空间， or I've left whatever space I'm in creating that thing,
我意识到它有魔力。 I realize that there is something conjuring with it.
发生了一些事。 There's something that happened.
从那次经历中得到了一些东西。 There's something that's coming from that experience.
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不假思索地把它弄出来的过程 The process of getting it out without thinking
关于我如何把它弄出来，而不是 about how I'm getting it out, without making
听起来不错，我把它拿出来， it sound good the way I'm getting it out without,
拿走我的-- taking away my--
把它拿出来-- just get it out--
对我来说，这是最好的方法。 is, for me, the best way to do it.
所以我写日记的时候 And so there's been times where I've written in my journal
我偶然发现了一种感觉，一种情感，一句话， and I've just stumbled on a feeling, an emotion, a word,
短语。 phrase.
我想起的那首歌 And the song that I recall happened
就像我最喜欢的一首歌叫 like that is one of my favorite songs called
“连国王都不行。” "Not Even the King."
[音乐-艾丽西亚·凯斯，“连国王都没有”] [MUSIC - ALICIA KEYS, "NOT EVEN THE KING"]
他们买不起我们的东西，连国王也买不起。 (SINGING) They can't afford what we've got, not even the king.
（说话）这首歌是-- (SPEAKING) This song is--
我喜欢这首歌。 I love this song.
我记得——这很简单。 And I remember-- and it's so simple.
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字面意思是C，D，E，F，字面意思。 It's literally C, D, E, F, literally.
我有过这样的经历-- And I had this experience where I was contemplating--
这听起来可能有点奇怪，但我要坦率地告诉你 this might sound strange, but I'm going to be candid with
因为这就是我们在这里要做的。 y'all because that's what we're here to do.
所以这是我们都要努力的。 So this is what we all have to work on.
我认为我们必须努力避免过多地评判自己。 I think we have to work on not judging ourselves a lot.
我只是对自己说，嗯，这听起来奇怪吗 I just said to myself, hmm, will this sound strange
如果我对他们说这些？ if I say this to them?
但我们还是继续吧。 But let's just go with it.
我们说的是言论自由。 We're talking about freedom of expression.
我们说的是解放思想。 We're talking about unchaining the mind.
我们说的是活在心里，活在精神里， We're talking about living in the heart, in the spirit,
在情感上。 in the emotion.
所以我们必须放弃这个判断才能做到。 So we have to let go of this judgment in order to do it.
我在想我见过多少次人 I was thinking about how often times I've met people
用一大笔钱， with an exorbitant amount of money,
我不敢相信我从他们身上感受到的悲伤。 and I can't believe the sadness that I feel from them.
我在想这是怎么发生的？ And I was thinking about how does that happen?
实际上我和我朋友说， And I actually was talking to my friend saying, look,
如果每个亿万富翁都非常痛苦， if everybody who's, like, a billionaire is super miserable,
我很好。 I'm good.
就像，我很好。 Like, I'm good.
我们做得很好。 We're doing good.
我们很酷。 We're cool.
当然，并不是因为那是刻板印象， And, of course, it's not that because that's the stereotype,
正确的？ right?
所以从来不是这样的。 So it's never just that.
但我想了想，这个愿望怎么会没有呢 But I thought about how this desire to not
失去快乐，爱，自发性，联系， lose the joy, the love, the spontaneity, the connection,
简单即使你变得更成功，甚至 the simplicity even as you become more successful, even
当你变成-- as you become--
你面前有机会， you have opportunities in front of you,
即使事情会变得比你最疯狂的梦想更糟， even as things might become more than your wildest dreams,
继续脚踏实地，充满爱 continuing to keep grounded and full of love
确保你在做什么 and making sure you're doing what
真的让你感觉很好。 really makes you feel good.
所以我脑子里就有这样的想法。 And so all of that was kind of like this thought in my head.
我开始写另一首歌叫做 And I started writing another song that was called something
我记不起来了，因为我 that I don't remember because it didn't work out because I
不需要它来解决。 didn't need it to work out.
它需要引导我去“甚至不是国王” It needed to lead me to "Not Even the King."
这就是为什么它最终成为我最喜欢的歌词之一 And that's why it ends up being one of my favorite lyrics
我最喜欢的一首歌， and one of my favorite songs ever,
句号，因为它太简单了。 period, because it's so simple.
你知道，歌词是-- And, you know, the lyric is--
（唱）钱。 (SINGING) Money.
有些人很穷。 Some people so poor.
他们所有的钱。 All that they got's money.
哦，还有钻石。 Oh, and diamonds.
有些人浪费生命数他们的数千。 Some people waste their life counting their thousands.
我不管他们提供什么， I don't care what they're offering,
他们带来了多少金子。 how much gold they bring.
他们付不起我们的钱。 They can't afford what we got.
即使是国王也付不起我们的钱。 Not even the king can afford what we got.
连国王都不行。 Not even the king.
（说）所以这种财富的想法是多余的， (SPEAKING) So that idea of this wealth is excess,
这种接触永远无法推翻纯粹的东西。 this access never being able to overrule something pure.
但我记得那首歌发展了很多 But I remember that song developed so much
从一个完全不起作用的地方 from something that totally didn't work and didn't exactly
感觉不错，但最终变成了这样 feel right, but eventually it became this thing
我非常爱你。 that I love so much.
所以每件事都是一个过程，每件事 So everything is a process, and everything
导致了一些事情。 is leading to something.
在我的很多歌里，都是对话。 In a lot of my songs, it's a conversation.
这是一个对话。 It's a dialogue.
很多时候它在寻找， A lot of the times it's searching for,
你知道，我们在找什么。 you know, what we're looking for.
我们在寻找如何继续前进。 We're searching for how to continue forward.
我们在寻找，答案是什么？ We're searching for, like, what's the answer?
我们在寻找我该如何接近那个人？ We're searching for how do I actually approach that person?
就像“你不知道我的名字” like in "You Don't Know My Name,"
或者我们在寻找什么的表达 or we're searching for the expression of what
我们觉得，对我来说， it is that we feel that I think, for me,
谈话是很自然的。 the conversation standpoint kind of happens naturally.
我都没意识到这是真的。 I don't even realize that it's happening.
不过，我特别记得“麻烦”一词 I remember specifically, though, with "Troubles,"
我急需一次重要的谈话 I was in dire need of a major conversation
任何愿意倾听的人。 with anybody who would listen.
因为我几乎不相信别人-- And because I barely trust people--
你怎么能相信那些最脆弱的人呢 how can you trust people with your most vulnerable feelings
焦虑和对不足和事物的感觉 and anxieties and feelings of inadequacies and things
就像我们都有的那样？ like that that we all have?
当时有了“麻烦”，我只是-- And with "Troubles" at the time, I was just--
我只是觉得我不能处理所有事情， I just didn't feel like I could handle everything,
我只是觉得我不能实现我想要的。 and I just didn't feel like I could deliver what I wanted to.
我感觉到了-- And I felt this--
我当时，你知道，大概只有16岁，我有很大的期望 I was, you know, only maybe 16, and I had this big expectation
创建此相册、此第一张相册和此音乐。 to create this album, this first album, and this music.
而且，你知道，我在这里，我玩了所有这些-- And, you know, here I was, and I played all these--
我为人们演奏这些歌，我告诉他们 I played these songs for people, and I told them
我知道我是谁，我是个钢琴演奏家 I knew who I was, and I was a piano player
一个艺术家和我自己的女人。 and an artist and my own woman.
我还是不知道，我是不是自己的女人？ And I still didn't even know, was I my own woman?
或者我到底有什么感觉？ or what did I exactly feel?
只是，有了生活和选择， And there was just, with life and choices,
一切都颠倒过来了。 everything just felt very upside down and turned around.
我很早就搬出了我妈妈的房子， I had moved out of my mother's house really, really early,
我感到孤独。 and I felt lonely.
我觉得——我觉得-- I felt-- I felt--
我觉得自己长大了，但我觉得自己没有长大。 I felt grown, but I felt not grown.
我——我不知道我在做什么。 I was-- I didn't know what I was doing.
我只是跌跌撞撞地想弄清楚 I was just stumbling around trying to figure out what
在世界上。 in the world.
所以我一直在绝望中醒来， So I kept waking up just with this desperation,
这种绝望的感觉。 this desperate feeling.
我感到如此孤独和孤独 I felt so lonely and isolated, and the only person
我知道跟谁说话是跟上帝说的。 I knew who to talk to was to God.
我只是不知道还能和谁说话。 I just didn't know who else to talk to.
我不知道是否有人会理解，甚至会明白 I didn't know if anybody else would understand or even get
是的。 it.
这就是为什么“麻烦”是非常重要的谈话。 And that's why "Troubles" is very conversation.
它实际上允许我说什么 It actually allowed me to say what
我觉得是因为这句诗是“我觉得世界正在关闭 I felt because the verse is "I feel like the world is closing
在我身上。 on me.
我觉得我的梦想永远不会实现。” I feel like my dreams will never come to be."
所以我有机会表达所有的东西 So I got the chance to express all the things
我当时的感觉是因为它让我发疯。 that I was feeling because it was driving me crazy.
它在里面，我只是在脑袋里乱敲， It was inside, and I was just banging around in my head,
我不能放手。 and I could not let it go.
然后我想象着被回答。 And then I imagined being answered.
在某种程度上，也许这就是答案。 And in a way, maybe it was the answer.
你知道，那是当时的答案。 You know, it was the answer at the time.
所以宇宙，上帝，那个灵魂 And so the universe, God, that spirit
我只是想说，请帮帮我。 that I was talking to just saying please, help me.
我该怎么办？ What do I do?
如果你有麻烦的话， Was able to say-- (SINGING) if you're troubled,
你就让它过去吧。 you just gotta let it go.
如果你担心，宝贝，你就让它过去吧。 If you're worried, baby, you just gotta let it go.
你所有的努力都不是白费。 All your hustles ain't for nothing.
你要慢慢来。 You just gotta take it slow.
当你需要我的时候，宝贝，你所做的就是让我知道。 When you need me, baby, all you do is let me know.
（说话）所以这就像是一次真实的对话 (SPEAKING) So it was like it was a real-life conversation
我当时需要的。 that I needed at the time.
我给自己的答案是这样的， And I kind of gave myself the answer that way,
我需要它。 and I needed it.