Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Know or listen to those who know.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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.