Never complain and never explain.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Only the educated are free.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.