Varg Vikernes Quotes

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.

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.

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.

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

I don't even talk about being locked up in any of my songs.

Jail was terrible. It was a nightmare.

I wrote a lot of lyrics in prison, but they'd all be like, 'Crawls upon the shoulders, hatred in the eyes.' I wrote about 50 songs in there that were all about jail. I've come out and thought, 'I've only served eight weeks; I can't really write a concept album about jail.'

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

Going to jail is beyond what anyone thinks it is.

It's [Jail's] like being at school. Except you can't leave.

Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...)

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

When you're in prison, you can't do anything about what's happening outside.

I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

By and large, prisons are survivable, though hope is indeed what you need least upon entering here; a lump of sugar would be more useful.

I really don't like being in jail.

No one cares about you when you're in jail.

I defend non-criminal detention.

No, I didn't hear about 'Live Aid.' I was in prison, and we were not allowed newspapers in prison.

No one wants to be sent to prison, including me.