If you've got a talent, protect it.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
I can, therefore I am.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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.