I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the universe.
Prison is no hardship, really. I'm in the art room as an assistant to the tutor, and basically, I'm doing what I like.
I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do with art. And then I was a very good swimmer from a very early age, and once again the best in the class, and when I was about five or six, I was the best in the school.
I always felt I had to fill silences, usually by singing or whistling. It was nerves and shyness, really.
If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.
I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'
