""I had wanted to be a visual artist. I wanted to paint and create with my fingers, but I couldn’t afford acrylic paint, and I didn’t yet really know how to use Photoshop, but I still wanted to express myself, so I drifted into poetry because I saw it as the same thing, as painting pictures, but just with words instead of brushes.""

“"Fear is one of the greatest inhibitors to creativity, because you think, I cannot think that, because this and this and this might happen; rather than just going forth and thinking it through and realising that it doesn’t work. We just stop."”

“"We don’t teach that. I think we teach science, and we teach circuitry and you have to tick the box, but we don’t say, ‘The world is out there, go build.’"”

“"Social media is negatively affecting our attention span, which means that we do not think deeply enough to solve problems."”

“"Creativity is flexibility. It means having no fixed way of beginning conversations or approaching problems."”

“"I learnt from an early age that folks are folks. Regardless of race, culture, age, identity we are all as inventive, deceitful, gorgeous, violent, supreme, kind, devious, incredibly welcoming, kind and two faced as each other."”

“"Rather, what inspires me? Truth and the search for greater understanding. I don’t believe that we are fundamentally different from each other."”