I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.
Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.
Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.