Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Who seeks shall find.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Never complain and never explain.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
After a storm comes a calm.
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.