Always desire to learn something useful.
Only the educated are free.
I can, therefore I am.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
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.