When asked by Dr Clare about his freedom from emotional attachments to people, Savile boasted: “I’m not constrained pretty well by anything.
“The tough thing in life is ultimate freedom, that’s when the battle starts. Ultimate freedom is what it’s all about, because you’ve got to be very strong to stand for ultimate freedom.
“Ultimate freedom is the big challenge, now I’ve got it, and I can tell you there’s not many of us that have got ultimate freedom. I’ve got some considerable clout as well, all over. That is where the battle, the personal battle starts now.”
“I’ve managed to handle complete and ultimate utter freedom. It’s marvellous but it’s dangerous.
“It would be easy to be corrupted by many things, when you’ve got ultimate freedom, especially when you’ve got clout. I could be corrupted.”
He goes on to say he has “all the money that was ever printed” and as such can do what he wants when he wants, stating “it is all too much”.
Savile explains how he never sleeps in the same place two nights in a row and carries a shoulder bag that has not been completely unpacked for “nearly 30 years”.
His obsession with making money is questioned, with Savile revealing an odd motive for always keeping a new car in the driveway. Knowing what we now know, it seems he prepared to be ready to go on the run.
“I can go skint in a day. I can be finished like that. If a scandal comes up or something like that or the people go off you, you’re finished. I’d much rather go skint with a brand new Rolls Royce in the garage than one that’s eight years old that I love, because I’ll get more for it.
“So the day that I get finished by some whatever, then the bits and pieces that I’ve got I’ll make sure that they’re all paid up and they’re all brand new because I could then go and be very unhappy in the south of France, covered in shame and sunshine and mad birds with bikinis on for a long time because there was a new Rolls Royce there and a new this and a new that.
“So I am all terribly logical which is actually bad news for you guys, because common sense and logic don’t leave you with a lot to find out.”
‘I haven’t got an interest in charity, not really’
Savile boasts of suing newspapers to keep them out of his personal affairs and confidently states that even if he lost everything he would quickly regain his position in society.
“I’ve got the freedom to do pretty well anything now including being bored, or being alone or being with people or getting things, I suppose if I didn’t have that I would only see that as a temporary setback because somewhere my inventiveness is such that if I had everything taken away from me now it wouldn’t be long before I got it back again.
He goes on to claim he “hates children” and has no interest in charity: “I haven’t got an interest in charity, not really. No it’s just that I’ve got a knack, I think you’re putting the cart before the horse there.
“Because I’ve got a knack for raising money or making money now, I don’t really care whether I make it… I don’t care whether I make it for me or somebody else, it’s academic to me, as long as I’m having a go at making it.”
