I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

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

My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.

Everyone of us is a potential convict.

By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.