After a storm comes a calm.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Only the educated are free.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Always desire to learn something useful.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The most effective way to do it, is to 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.