I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that's the true crime.

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

China partially wants to become part of the world. By hosting the Olympics and the Expo, they made a big effort to tell people: Look, we are the same. They want to be accepted by the international community.

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

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.

I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.