In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

How to become a really modern society when today we are so - as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive. We are not on - even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.

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

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

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

I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.

[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.