To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.