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

Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution. Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

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 believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

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.