In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.

I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

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.

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.