It [success] is really by mistake.

[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.

I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.

Liberty is about the right to question everything.

Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.

If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.