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I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

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

Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

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

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.