That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.

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

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.

Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.