If I look at it, I would laugh. I don't know how I became successful.

To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.

This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.

I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

What counts in the end is what the government does.

Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.

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.