I kicked off… and things went on from there… down and down.

What I’ve enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new...

I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I’d go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking...

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes – I do all the time – but it doesn’t matter.

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

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.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

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

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well...

I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the...

The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, ‘cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig… Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

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

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.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

An Australian friend of mine runs tours in STH America and every now and then he arranges with me to have a barbecue for certain groups.

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

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without...

Banks’ beer. There’s nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.

This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

Dad worked on a railway as a steward on the dinning cars. He’d been a soldier, he’d been a sailor, and he was a chef in his later years.

I don’t have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don’t want to return to prison.

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young...

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I’m nervous.