If you can dream it, you can do it.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Never complain and never explain.
Who seeks shall find.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.