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I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.

Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.