Q: How much do you second-guess your lyrics and musical songwriting decisions?  How do you free yourself from constantly rewriting? Thanks for the inspirational art, Bill.
A: the more times you re-write it, the less good it will be. so, the first line of defense is to write pretty quickly, but in case you get stuck in a trap, usually the best thing you can do is just accept that the earliest version is the best one you're going to get