Lil Yachty Quotes

I usually do about five drafts per rhyme for each song.

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

I try not to agonize over my lyrics, though, because that can come across in them. Some lyrics come more easily than others and some you have to spend a lot of time on, but I think you have to watch that you don't take the life out of them by worrying too much.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

I write everything. It's my favorite part of what I do. And lyrics are my favorite thing.

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

I used to write on pads with a pen but had trouble reading the words the next day. Years later, Bob Dylan taught me to just write and write on a laptop computer. Then I'd print that out. When it was time to write a song, I'd go through the pages and sing melodies to words that moved me.

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that.

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.