There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.

It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.

I am not a perfect man who has led a faultless life.

For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.

The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean, you have got to realize I've been on the run for more than 30 years. I have got to have had more than that.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.