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After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

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

Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.

Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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.

Prison works.

The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained.

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.