When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.

当你遇见我时，我可以是迷人的，聪明的，通情达理的。

I was a bass guitarist first before I started playing double bass - and I only started playing it because my teacher said I'd get twice as much work, as there's not enough players out there.

在我开始演奏低音提琴之前，我是一名低音吉他手，我之所以开始演奏低音提琴，是因为我的老师说我会得到两倍的工作量，因为没有足够的演奏者。

I walked away from a lot, I could have stayed in the industry in some capacity and had a fairly cushy income, and I chose to follow God. If it happened all over again, I would do that same thing.

我离开了很多，我本可以以某种身份留在这个行业，并有一个相当轻松的收入，我选择跟随上帝。如果这一切再次发生，我也会做同样的事。

I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

我总是设法惹上麻烦，就像每个孩子一样。但是我必须自己去学习很多艰苦的课程，没有父母在我很小的时候就培养和守护我度过这段人生。

I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

我告诉你，在我的一生中，我从来没有见过西班牙裔乞丐，因为在我们的社区，在街上乞讨会被视为可耻的。这些都是保守的价值观-信仰，家庭，努力工作，责任。

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

二十年后，如果有一些晦涩琐碎的追求问题，我相信我会找到答案。

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

从很早的时候起，我的一个目标就是，如果我有幸在音乐方面取得成功的话，我会想成为同一个人，成为同一个词曲作者。

If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.

如果我对一段感情想得太多，我会说服自己放弃。

And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

在参议院，我每天都要对2700万德州人负责，我今天向他们保证，如果我当选，我每天都会做两件事：说实话，做我说过要做的事。

When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'

当我40岁的时候，没人想再看到我穿着闪亮的裙子，我会说：‘酷，我就去录音室给孩子们写歌。’

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

我的朋友们嘲笑我，如果有人看起来很坏，或者很阴暗，或者他们有秘密，我发现他们是非常有趣的。

A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.

一个朋友告诉我关于《怪眼》的选角通知。我当时在芝加哥，和《绅士》杂志有一份合同，所以我经常来纽约，以为我会搭一架便宜的飞机，撞在朋友的沙发上，做一个我没机会赢的搞笑试镜。