Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.

I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.

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.

Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don't act, then the result is very clear. So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.