Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.

What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.

Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

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

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.