People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.

The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.

New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

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

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].