If you've got a talent, protect it.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
It's always too early to quit.
I can, therefore I am.
Wherever you are - be all there.
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.