I suddenly realized I was getting ten opening notes a day on my mobile phone, more than when I was in New York. But this is China, where nothing is surprising.

I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that's all I know.

To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.

There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.