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“My hunch, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really imagine what catastrophe is like. I have a hunch that we all labor under this rather convenient illusion that if we read about the Syrian refugee crisis, we can imagine what it feels like to set off from your home and your life with all your possessions in two bin liners. We all think that we can imagine that and my guess is that none of us have got a clue.”
Source : "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016. 
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“I simply want tomorrow to be better than today. I want Palestine to be independent and sovereign... Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.”
Source : "Hamas rejects Abbas unity pledge". Mahmoud Abbas' address to the UN General Assembly, news.bbc.co.uk. September 21, 2006.
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“God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.”
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“Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.”
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“I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can't really escape it.”
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“I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.”
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“Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.”
Source : Source: www.fuse.tv
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“A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.”
