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.

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.

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.

Love can bless you with a sense of purpose and direction when all else fails. Because to have faith in love is to be optimistic about life. Love is hopefulness.

Faith in God gives faith in self.

Many who have learnedfrom Hesiod the countless namesof gods and monstersnever understandthat night and day are one

Acceptance can bring the greatest of joys and the worst of sorrows

When I find the guy who torched that forest, I'm going to eat him. And I'm only going to half-cook him first.-Sergeant Schlock

It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.

It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes.

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.

I've been approached by many different people, but I don't really want to be known as a collaboration dude.