Sharon Jones Quotes

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.

I went to Rikers one time to do 'Third Watch,' and I remember thinking, 'Wow, this is a scary place.' We were using a section of the prison where half of it was still populated by inmates.

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

I did get to Beersheba [in Israel], but only to prison there. It was actually very nice, with television and free international calls. I would recommend it even over many hotels I have known. It was a shame to leave.

I've ended up in prison a number of times, once in Cambodia, once in Cuba - for hours rather than days.

My father, David Gilbert, is in prison in New York. He is lucky that he has a single cell, not shared with another person. His cell is about eight feet by eight feet.

To be honest, I would probably rather spend, like, a month in prison than spend a month rehearsing with some musicians, metalheads. I pick prison over that, really. And I say that knowing well what prison is like, so don't get me wrong here. Prison sucks big time.

The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.

I relate to any prison movie, as long as it has some authenticity.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

Larry Jones with Feed the Children and I are partnering in New York and going into Rikers Island.

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.

Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.

A friend of mine is chief of staff at a big prison in Georgia. Along with giving me a tour of the prison, she allowed me to meet inmates.

It was very cold in jail. But inmates were good. They shared their stories with me.

I don't know what goes on in prison. I've never been in trouble with the police in my life.

I was always shocked in prison because it's a scary place. It's not natural to lock that many people up like that, in such a tiny place. There's something disturbing about it.

I spent two months in a jail once. In a Mexican border town.