Wherever you are - be all there.
I can, therefore I am.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
You never know what motivates you.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Never complain and never explain.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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.