OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.