When I was at a tough inner-city school, drama gave me a friendship group. It's been so core to who I am and given me such confidence later in life.

The benefits of globalisation and economic growth are being unevenly distributed and people are acutely aware of their own relative disadvantage.

In an era of 'fake news' the role of trained and professional journalists has never been more important.

Growing up with my mum, often I'd be the only person at home. She would spend a lot of time talking to me. She treated me almost like an adult; she used to get mildly rebuked by my dad and my grandad for that. But she gave me a degree of responsibility beyond my years; my own sense of agency and even my self-confidence, I get from her.

If we want to end austerity, if we want to protect jobs and livelihoods and if we want to hold multinational corporations to account, then we need to stay in the single market.

It is astonishing that the architects of variable fees in Scotland should be the Scottish Liberal Democrats.

We literally see things so differently, all the architecture and stuff. That's the cool part about skateboarding. We're out there skating stuff that's not meant to be skated.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.