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.

[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

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