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As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change. ”
I love that feeling you get once you leave a cinema having just watched a movie during the day. Your eyes slowly adjust to the natural light, and your mind, being a little slower, takes its time to separate the images of film from the reality you are suddenly facing. ”
I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change. ”
We have to talk about the negativity, but we have to enjoy the beauty of what this country, culturally, has done. ”
At some point you have to take responsibility for who you are and where you are and being able to listen to other points of view, whichever side of the tracks you're on. ”
You know, I really feel a responsibility to the music, and I teach workshops in music sometimes. And folks do come to me and they go, 'How do I make this blues song my own? How do I feel like I'm not an impostor doing this?' And I'm like, 'That's an excellent question.' That's where you should start, where you go, 'How does this speak to me?' ”
White people are so fragile, God bless 'em. 'Well, I didn't own slaves.' No you didn't. Nobody is asking you to take personal responsibility for this. But you're a beneficiary of a system that did. Just own that and move on. ”
I'm not disputing that increasing CO2 emissions in the atmosphere is going to have an impact. It'll have a warming impact. ”
There is still significant uncertainty around all of the factors that affect climate change. ”
We recognize that greenhouse gas emissions are one of the factors affecting climate change. ”