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.

Liberty is about the right to question everything.

I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.

Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it's a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: "You and I are divided. We're different, and you're dangerous." That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It's dangerous to create that kind of tension.

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

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.