On red, there was a song that I wrote在《红》这张专辑里，有一首我写的歌
alone in a hotel room when I was 22 years old called Nothing New. Where I'm...独自在酒店房间里，在我22岁时写的，叫《Nothing New》。我正...
It sounds ridiculous, but at 22 years old, I felt completely washed up.这听起来很荒谬，但22岁时，我感觉自己完全过气了。
I felt like maybe the only thing that made me special was that I was this like我觉得也许唯一让我特别的地方就是我像这样
teen, phenom, whatever I was. Looked at us.青少年、神童，不管我当时是什么。看着我们。
So I wrote this song and it includes lines like, you know,所以我写了这首歌，里面包含像这样的歌词，你知道的。
how can a person know everything at 18 and一个人怎么可能在18岁时知道一切，而
Because when I was 18, I had the fearless album come out and I had my first international number ones.因为当我18岁时，我的《无畏》专辑发行了，我有了我的第一个国际冠军单曲。
And everybody was like, oh, this writing, it's so true. It's so honest.然后每个人都像这样，哦，这歌词，太真实了。太真诚了。
She feels like she deserves to be here.她觉得自己配得上在这里。
And then there was this big upheaval of, no, she doesn't. No, she doesn't.然后出现了一场大动荡：不，她不配。不，她不配。
She sucks, actually.实际上，她很糟糕。
And it really turned the tables on my perception这真的颠覆了我的看法。
of love can be so quickly handed to you and then taken away.爱可以如此迅速地给予你，然后又夺走。
And it's this kind of strange thing with fame.这就是那种与名声有关的奇怪事情。
And that was the first time I ever grappled with that.那是我第一次与那件事作斗争。
Somebody was like, oh, you're 22 years old and you're saying, are you tired of me?有人说，哦，你才22岁，你却在说，你厌倦我了吗？
If you're not yet, are you going to get tired of me?如果你还没有，你会厌倦我吗？
Because it's usually something that you would sing about later in life.因为这通常是你在以后的生活中才会歌唱的事情。
But the entertainment industry, I'll tell you, there's 10 years for every year you're in it.但娱乐行业，我跟你说，你在里面待一年相当于外面十年。
Songwriting is something that it's a very写歌是一件非常
intimate, tiny little thing for me.对我来说是一件私密而微小的事情。
I have a lot of things I like to do.我有很多喜欢做的事情。
I like to make art.我喜欢创作艺术。
I like to write songs.我喜欢写歌。
And I try to keep it as like dear to me as those other things I just named.我试着让它像刚才提到的那些东西一样对我珍贵。
I have to know that like there's certain things that we have as a tradition between me and my fans.我必须知道，我和粉丝之间有一些事情是作为传统存在的。
They love for an emotional song to be track five.他们喜欢把一首情感丰富的歌放在第五首。
There's like special things like that, but at the same time, there's有像那样特别的事情，但同时，还有
sort of so many of them now, which is great.现在有这么多，这很棒。
But there's corners of my fan base who are gonna take things to a really extreme place.但我的粉丝群体中有一些人会把事情推向非常极端的地步。
There's nothing I can do about that.对此我无能为力。
There's people who are going to try to do detective work figure out the details.有些人会试图像侦探一样去查明细节。
Who is that about what is this?那是关于谁？这是什么？
When it gets a little bit weird for me is when people act like it's a paternity test.对我来说有点奇怪的是，当人们表现得好像这是一场亲子鉴定时。
This song's about that person, because I'm like, that dude didn't这首歌是关于那个人的，因为我就想，那家伙没有
write the song I did.写出我写的那首歌。
But that's part of it.但那是其中的一部分。
You have to hold tight to your perception of your你必须紧紧抓住你对你的认知
art and your relationship with it.艺术以及你与它的关系。
And then you just kind of have to like, there it goes.然后你就只能这样，随它去吧。
If you don't now, hope you do on five years.如果你现在不喜欢，希望五年后你会喜欢。
And if you never do, then I was doing it for me anyway.如果你永远都不喜欢，那我做这件事本来就是为了我自己。
Yeah, criticism has been a huge fuel for me.是的，批评对我来说一直是一大动力。
It's been a huge jumping off point, like a creative writing prompt or something.这是一个巨大的起点，就像一个创意写作提示之类的东西。
There are so many songs in my career that would not exist, like blank space,在我的职业生涯中，有很多歌曲根本不会存在，比如《Blank Space》。
would not exist if I hadn't如果我没有……就不会存在。
had people being like, here's a slideshow of all her boyfriend's.有人像这样对我说：‘这是她所有男友的幻灯片。’
And then anti-hero is a song that I'm so proud of still.然后《Anti-Hero》是一首我至今仍然非常自豪的歌。
That song doesn't exist if I don't get criticized for如果我不因……而受到批评，那首歌就不存在。
every aspect of my personality that people have a problem with人们对我个性有意见的每一个方面
My favorite thing when I sit down with new artists or songwriters and I'm like, Why我最喜欢的事情是，当我和新艺术家或词曲作者坐下来时，我会说，为什么
are you reading your comments?你在看你的评论吗？
That's too much of it.那太多了。
You're inundating yourself with too much criticism that doesn't really have a focus.你让自己淹没在太多没有重点的批评中。
But I think a little bit of it, you gotta just be like, this is part of it.但我认为一点点的话，你得这样想，这是其中的一部分。
Don't make this, make you stop不要让这个让你停下。
writing or make you edit yourself or whatever.写作，或者让你编辑自己，或者诸如此类。
If it's an interesting point to you to respond to,如果这是一个你觉得值得回应的有趣观点。
then that's a gift for you to be able to write那么这对你来说就是一份能够写作的礼物
something, maybe you wouldn't have written something that day.一些东西，也许那天你本来不会写出任何东西。
God, don't go to the notes app and post it, write about it.天哪，别去备忘录应用里发出来，去写关于它。
Make art about this.以此创作艺术。
Don't respond to trolls in your comments.不要回复你评论中的网络喷子。