The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate.

Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling.

All confrontation is based on deception.

My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.

I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth.

The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me, I demand to be charged and put on trial and offer to pay my own airfare. They know that I'm going to bring a lot of international media with me and put their whaling programme on trial, and they decide it's better to keep quiet and do nothing.

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?

We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.

I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.

Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal.

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels.

I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.

Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that.

It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.

I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan.

Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together.

I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.

That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.

Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities.

Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment.

I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together.

My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.