Quotes

I have always been anti-establishment, and to be accepted by any establishment is offensive to me.

Celebrity provokes fantasies, particularly when guided by saturation coverage in the media. The tabloids are 99% entertainment, 1% information. It seems the mere mention of my name provokes hysteria. The truth is, being described as a 'vile pervert' means absolutely nothing to me.

I've found prison a most enlightening, enjoyable and fascinating experience. Like boarding school without the sex. There's a whole world in there, packed with nice, horrid, average and extraordinary people, a way of life unknown to the majority of us.

You meet fascinating people and get to see the other side of the world, one that you never knew existed. Like most people, I had the view that once the prison gate slams shut, hell takes place, but the reality couldn't be further from the truth. I have had no complaints at all about my time inside, apart from the food at Broadmoor.

I've had a brilliant three-and-a-half years for crimes I did not commit. I'm innocent of the charges against me. There is no issue of the acts being consensual, there were no acts. However much people try, you can't bend the truth. There's no truth in the offenses whatsoever. One of the five men I am accused of abusing I have never even met and there is no evidence I ever did meet him.

One of the happiest things about 1986 was that at last Chris De Burgh smashed his way to number one.

The crimes never happened. At least miscarriages of justice in cases of murder have bodies to show that crimes did take place. If I'd been tried now, instead of 14 years ago, when the ages of consent had only just been equalised thanks to the EU and to the fury of homophobes, I would certainly have been found innocent.

[on Sir Jimmy Savile] He was an innocent man unless, of course, (newspapers) agree with the current legal premise that an accused person is guilty until or unless he or she can prove themselves innocent. That applies dead or alive, doesn't it, unless we must believe the media always carries the truth.