The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Leap, and the net will appear.
After a storm comes a calm.
Never complain and never explain.
I can, therefore I am.
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.