By the time they drive home, I’m backdowntown in my housing voucher studio apartment that used to be just a tinyhotel room until somebody crowded in a stove and a fridge to raise the rent.

我租来的公寓只有一个工作室那么大，从前它只是一间很小的旅馆房间，之后有个人塞进来一个炉子和一个冰箱来提高租金。

youdao

Basically he told me that he would help record and master my first CD in his home studio, so I went to Germany.

他和我说他乐意在他的工作室帮我录专辑，所以我去了德国。

youdao

But to be totally honest, at this point I would just love to pack up my bags and go home to my studio in NY, leave the whole pop entertainment scene behind for a few months.

不瞒你们说，我现在很想把行李打包好，回到纽约的录音室，暂时离开这个娱乐圈几个月。

youdao

"So I did do something about it go home and lock myself in my garage, in my recording studio, and not going to come out until I sound so different that I make my mother happy and she knows me from anybody else.

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