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

My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.

I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent.

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.