This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.

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.

If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.

Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.

If a society cannot even support somebody like me, then people ask: Who is under protection then? That's why there is such support for me. It is not because I am so beautiful or I am so charming. People feel: This guy is fighting for us.

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

We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.