I’d be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn’t happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.

Eugene Debs entered jail a moderate Unionist and emerged a Socialist.

When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun’.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, and throw thunder in jail.

Jail was terrible. It was a nightmare.

Sometimes I wake up, feel like I should’ve been in jail.