At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year - 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me. These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.

I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.

If a society cannot even support somebody like me, then people ask: Who is under protection then? That's why there is such support for me. It is not because I am so beautiful or I am so charming. People feel: This guy is fighting for us.

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot appear on the web, because my opinion is different from the Party.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.