After a storm comes a calm.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Who seeks shall find.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
It's always too early to quit.
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.