I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

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