"I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent."

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”

Source : David Rogers, Daniel Keyes (1969). “Flowers for Algernon: One Act”, p.28, Dramatic Publishing

“If there had never been the Great Migration there would never have been jazz, there would never have been Michelle Obama. A lot of amazing black people exist in this country because of the Great Migration. That's nation-building.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself.”

Source : "Making Music in the Anthropocene". www.slate.com. February 24, 2015.

“The question isn't so much, Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult you want your child to grow up to be?”

“Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing.”

“The law needs to be applied to everyone equally and the Home Office has previous in banning hate preachers engaging in rhetoric similar to that of [Donald] Trump.”

“One of the great gifts that you can give people is to cook for them.”

“I travel as much as I can and meet people.”