Closest Quote by Laura Marling

I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics…

— Eddie Vedder

I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can…

— Matt Corby

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

— King Tuff

I don't need to edit names out of songs and I don't need to edit details out of my songs because I've always been…

— Taylor Swift

Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that…

— Nick Cave

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and…

— Kelela

I generally write the songs accidentally. They generally come out of nowhere.

— Chris de Burgh

The editing of a song is largely what makes the song for me and I think that actually if I had started going like…

— Nick Cave

If there's a track that's rhyme friendly, the verse will basically write itself. If the track is less rhyme friendly, you have to put…

— Black Thought

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are…

— Kelly Jones

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then…

— Nick Cave

I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.

— Robert Plant