BRIAN: It's very rare that I write the songs for someone; I write because that's what I do.

我很少给别人写歌，我创作故我在。

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Also it's important that I write the songs too, which is different from seeing a lyric sheet from someone else.

我写了很多歌，不是看别人的歌单创作而来的，这很重要。

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I did not write the songs as a character but as myself.

我不以角色的角度写歌，而是自己。

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Barry Manilow's worldwide record sales exceed 75 million, thanks in part to such hit records as Copacabana, Mandy and I Write the Songs.

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Well, I think it's - I didn't write any songs in the old days, but after I met Leonard, he said why aren't you writing your own songs.

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And I think they - they hanker for, you know, some simplicity, some real basic honest human emotions, and that would sort of cover the general spirit in which I write songs.

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