we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

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.

Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

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

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

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.