What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
“There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty.”
“I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.”