We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.

I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don't think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.

In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.

I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.

I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.