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

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.

I have spoken with him, and we have exchanged e-mails and letters, ... And I have pledged to him my full cooperation, mine and the Ramsey family's. I understand his reputation is that he's very well qualified.

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

The cunning villains used our innocence, naivety and honesty; they incited and steered our virtue, purity and fervent temperaments. When we realized the actual absurdity of the situation and began to demand our democratic rights, we were subjected to unprecedented persecution and suppression. Our youth, passion, learning, idealism and joy were all sacrificed to the terrible rule of this wicked tyranny. How can this not be blood?

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.