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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

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

I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.

Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.

One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.

I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put on me. He sent out his angels to rescue me. In prison, he protected me the whole time I was in there, and it was just for me to get my will power back, to get my strength back, get my focus together.