Know or listen to those who know.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Never complain and never explain.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Only the educated are free.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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.