It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.

The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.

I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean, you have got to realize I've been on the run for more than 30 years. I have got to have had more than that.

I am not a perfect man who has led a faultless life.

For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.

I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.

The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities.

To me faith means not worrying.

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

Everybody has dreams. You are living the American dream, what's wrong with pushing to secure it for everyone?

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Look at what you could have won!

When a woman says, 'I don't wish to mention any names', it means it ain't necessary to mention any names.

I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of working on a book. You have to watch out with the slutty new idea.

I enjoy helping young children succeed.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.