What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Always desire to learn something useful.
You never know what motivates you.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Only the educated are free.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you can dream it, you can do 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.