'Has it changed as a city? There are more homeless people on the streets.'

'I still don't understand the barriers of not allowing people to work, not allowing people to flourish.'

'I've noticed in Glasgow people are just genuinely kind'

'I was really surprised, I suppose, at the identity crisis that Scotland was going through.'

‘Everything that I’ve written has almost always been in English. I’m just now coming to reconnect with the Danish language.’

'She said, 'Well, we know that you've got a British passport 'cause your father is British, so you can either leave or we're going to the police'.'

‘Love is that. You can’t say the person is ugly, which religion, which race, you can’t say it.'

‘The way I was brought up was that honesty was more important than politeness. So that was a hard lesson to learn once I arrived in the UK.'

'Glasgow for me is like anchovies. First you might not like it, but as you taste more it grows on you'

'I used to wear dreadlocks and they were removed, and one of the judges turned around and said that it's not me in the photos.'

‘I have no roots here at all, but we have a kid now. The kid is from Scotland.’

'My father flew to England and left my mother with four children to travel from Australia to England on a cargo ship for eight weeks.'

'Through voluntary jobs I met a lot of people. A lot of them are good friends and life is much better now.'

‘I’d often joke and say ‘Well the Brits stayed for 200 odd years, I’m just returning the compliment!’’

‘I get two set questions. One is ‘Where are you from?’ and then the second one is ‘Why don’t you sound like where you’re from?’’

'If you have money for war, I'm sure we have money to build houses and accept as many people as we can'

'What I heard from Maori people and Maori activists that I met was ‘Don’t come to us, look to your own ancestry to fill the gaps'

'I live a neighbourhood that there is a lot of poverty, and for me this is strange to see in one of the wealthiest countries'

'If we also move and another person comes, and they do the same to them, when will it stop?'

'My mum should be a Scot in many ways because she has that kind of 'get on with it' attitude'

'I have realised I'm stronger than I thought at the beginning'

'There's a lot of talk of immigration at the moment, and people often don't realise that I'm one of the 'baddies''

'I already had two places I could call home, but I never felt at home in either of them'

'To be honest, I think of myself as European and a Glaswegian more than I think of myself as a Dane'

'I would love it if Glasgow could be educated a bit. Just a bit.'

‘Sometimes I feel like I’m in Naples in Italy, because the people are very similar’

'That first year in Glasgow was the worst year of my entire life. Not even the communist past in Poland became so painful in my memory.'

‘Let’s be honest it’s not like London, but it’s definitely better than Edinburgh’