Author: Dale Husband

“Look, if you do a deal with us, you can call us in 200 years’ time and we’ll still be here. Someone will pick up the telephone.”

“The city can eat you up. And I don’t think I’d be writing the music I write if I was living in Auckland.”

“There’s value in going back to Pūao-te-Āta-tū. You’ve got to go back sometimes to go forward.” — Neville Baker.

“I think some of it is well-meaning and paternalistic stuff. But it’s racism nevertheless. So it doesn’t matter whether it’s malicious or accidental or just ignorant racism. It’s still racism. And the outcome is just the same.”

“People don’t realise that we’re descended from scientists. They just think we’re a bunch of indigenous people who fluked getting to places.”