Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.

The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.

I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years. We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet. Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot appear on the web, because my opinion is different from the Party.