Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

I want people to see their own power.

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

I can still wake up the next day and feel that there's something that needs to be done, which always amuses me.

This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.