[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

I think I'm just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there's no bridge, you build one. I'm used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology - it's not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China's problems are not just China's problems - they're human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.

I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we'll have competition. And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would've lost the ground to win.

Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.