Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years. We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet. Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.