What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Wherever you are - be all there.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
You never know what motivates you.
I can, therefore I am.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.