It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.

The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart...

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

There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.