This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.

Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.

I remember one little rainy day I went searching for this apartment and I saw so many people standing on a stoop on the corner in the rain. Later I realized, that was drug traffic. They were all buying drugs.

I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.

I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.

Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.