New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

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.

My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable

I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it's like a mafia family's law. It's independent to the law this nation openly applies. It's the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.

It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.

There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.