CAROLE KING: It was important. It was important to my grandmother to have music in the house.

音乐很重要。对我祖母来说，家里有音乐是很重要的。

CAROLE KING: As of this interview, I'm 72 years old, officially turned 72 earlier this week.

在这次采访中，我已经72岁了，本周早些时候我正式年满72岁。

CAROLE KING: So hearing them sing those notes that I know I wanted to sing, sing them so the way I wanted to.

所以听到他们唱出那些音符，我知道我想唱歌，然后按照我想要的方式去唱。

CAROLE KING: Creativity comes in different ways. I've written with co-writers, and there's a wonderful spark that happens when you write with a co-writer.

创造力来自不同的方面。我和其他作者一起写过歌，当你和其他作者一起写的时候，就会产生奇妙的火花。

CAROLE KING: And the journey includes having grown up and not thinking of myself as beautiful in the sense that most young girls were expected to be beautiful.

这个过程包括我长大了，不再像大多数年轻女孩被期望的那样认为自己很漂亮。

CAROLE KING: Not as an artist but as a songwriter, and maybe at that time I thought, " Well, maybe I can sing them, " but I didn't want to be a star or anything.

不是作为艺术家，而是作为词曲作家，也许那时我想，“好吧，也许我可以唱这些歌，”但我不想成为明星或其他什么。

CAROLE KING: I have a level of chutzpah in that, if there's something that I would like to achieve, I don't do it with arrogance, but I think, “Someone's going to make it. Why don't I? ” You know, “Why not me? ”

某种程度上讲，我比较肆无忌惮，如果有什么是我想要实现的，我不会带着傲慢去做，但我会认为，“总有人会成功的。为什么不能是我呢？”你知道，“为什么不能是我？”