"To accept oneâ€™s past â€“ oneâ€™s history â€“ is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought."

-- James A. Baldwin

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“I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there's a real lack of intimacy. You don't really connect with the artist as much anymore, and you don't really understand where they are. I'm basically doing music that illustrates who I am and where I am in my life.”

Source : "Meet 90201's Tristan Wilds!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. October 26, 2011.
“The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes.”
“I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'”
“I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your lives intertwined, but in the end another soul can be fundamentally unknowable. And I think that the stress of war, when one party goes away and the other has to deal at home, is a really testing time in a lot of marriages.”
“Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!”
“What attracted me was less art itself than the artistâ€™s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action. I had been attracted to painting and drawing for a long time, but it was not an irresistible passion; what I wanted, at all costs, was to escape the monotony of life.”
“The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.”
“Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.”

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