"I have never been in a stadium in my life," Ai says. "I doubt I will ever go into the Bird's Nest."

"I don't want to have to talk about it all the time. I am much more interested in what is going to happen to [the stadium] after the Games. I would like it to become a place where people like to go, bring their children or can come for mass weddings, or maybe mass divorces or, best of all, to have barbecues together.'

- Ai Weiwei talking about the Olympic stadium, the Bird's Nest, he collaborated