I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

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.

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.

When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.