I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking

Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.