Wherever you are - be all there.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Who seeks shall find.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Never complain and never explain.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.