“It doesn't matter how many times people knock me down, push me down, emotionally, mentally. It does mess me up a little bit, but it takes a couple of days or hours to [get] kicked out of it, but sometimes it doesn't – I just snap out of it. I try to be as kind and as helpful as possible.”

“I'm not into crime. I'm into helping people, and sometimes I catch people stealing, and I try to help and I've done that, I've gone out of my way, and that's what you call a citizen that steps out and helps. Like an ambassador. I'm an ambassador of the city. You can add that in. I'm a citizen that wants to get out there and change how people think and people need to have more community.”

“Are you a kind person? Or do you wake up every day and see who you can mess around with? That's what I don't understand of people–why do they wake up and try to be mean to people just [for] the sake of being mean.

“You know, like if I go to a coffee shop, OK for example, and I'm a regular, and they know how I like my coffee, but they give me a hard time. See, snobby business owners should not have a business because snobby business owners, they don't know how to deal with the average citizen in society. All they care about is their money. They don't care about the interactions or how they interact; they care about only 1% or 2%, but the other whatever percent get treated crappy.

“My mother and father had two businesses when I grew up. I have one myself; I know how to deal with people. I'm not gonna say ‘oh do you, do you wanna buy my merch?’ That's very rude. You know, I would say ‘would you like?’ or ‘miss’ or ‘sir’ or they/he or whatever the pronouns are, use them.

“We're in a different world now. You know, before the pandemic everybody was more kinder. Vancouver is very kind, but it needs to be more kinder. I don't know, you know, the world is shifting. People's minds are shifting.”