Ian Brady has told his mental health tribunal he is not psychotic as he attempts to be transferred from a high-security hospital to prison.
The Moors Murderer, giving evidence at Ashworth hospital where he has been held for 28 years, also appeared to deny he would try to commit suicide if he is moved to jail.
He compared himself to a monkey in a cage being poked with a stick as he said: "You cannot make plans when you have no freedom of control, movement or anything."
Wearing a dark suit, white shirt and tie and his customary dark glasses, Brady has been speaking publicly at length for the first time since 1966.
The child killer, 75, told the tribunal that it would be "easy" to cope in jail if he was kept locked up 24 hours a day and kept apart from other prisoners.
Brady, who has been on so-called hunger strike since 1999, has previously said he wants to starve himself to death in prison where he cannot be force fed.
Currently, he is fed through a tube in his nose, although the tribunal panel heard on Monday he is actually eating other foods and makes himself toast every morning.
Brady is one of Britain's most notorious killers Brady described his life behind bars, how he enjoys "eclectic, freewheeling conversation", how he studied German and psychology and how he walks up and down in his cell reciting Shakespeare and Plato.
Brady said he had "more freedom" in prison - he spent time in Durham, Parkhurst and Wormwood Scrubs. He remembered mixing with the Kray twins, the Great Train Robbers and various terrorists.
He also alluded to his time as a barber, when he claimed he would trim the beards of prison staff.
Brady made reference to his notoriety as a prisoner, saying the public and media are obsessed with the Moors murders case.
He said: "Why are they still talking about Jack the Ripper, after a century? It fascinates them so, the dramatic background, the fog, cobbled streets. The Moors is the same thing... Wuthering Heights, Hound Of The Baskervilles."
Sky's Tom Parmenter said: "He was asked his mental health which is crucial to the hearing because it is his claim that he should not be in a high-security hospital but instead an ordinary prison.
"He was asked about talking to himself in jail, and he said when he was in solitary confinement he would memorise the pages of Shakespeare or Plato and then recite them in his cell.
"He said if he drops a glasses case in a corridor and mutters to himself that would be seized by an opportunistic member of staff and used as evidence. But he also said at the tribunal 'Who doesn't talk to themselves?'"
Brady has denied he is psychotic His legal team says he has a severe narcissistic personality disorder but is not mentally ill and could be treated in prison rather than hospital.
But Ashworth says Brady is still chronically mentally ill and remains a paranoid schizophrenic who needs around-the-clock care.
He has refused medication and therapy for his mental disorders since 2000 as he is "wholly resistant" to any treatment and now tries to hide his mental illness, the tribunal panel was told earlier.
Brady, speaking in a low, halting Scottish accent, said he went on hunger strike after being "attacked" by 12 warders where he had his wrist broken.
He recalled he was in his room and heard chanting of "do not resist". He said the warders were dressed in riot gear and balaclavas and held him down for an hour.
Myra Hindley was also convicted of child killings He said he was moved by the riot gear staff to another ward at Ashworth and then the next day - September 30, 1999 - began his hunger strike.
His lawyer Nathalie Lieven QC asked him directly why he wanted to leave Ashworth. Brady said originally it was a "decent and progressive" regime when it was the "star" of the specialist hospitals such as Broadmoor and Rampton.
But he complained that the regime changed when Ashworth went from being run by the Home Office to being under the control of the NHS.
"Security ruled care," he said. "Of course, that was not official policy, it was covert." He described Ashworth, and the like, now as a "penal warehouse".
The last time Brady spoke so publicly was in court in Chester when he was convicted 47 years ago and jailed for life for three murders in the 1960s.
Brady and his partner, Myra Hindley, were convicted of luring children and teenagers to their deaths, with their victims sexually tortured before being buried on Saddleworth Moor, east of Manchester.
Brady was given life for the murders of John Kilbride, 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and 17-year-old Edward Evans.
Hindley was convicted of killing Lesley Ann and Edward and shielding Brady after John's murder, and jailed for life.
Both later confessed to the murders of 16-year-old Pauline Reade - whose body was found in 1987 - and 12-year-old Keith Bennett whose body has not been discovered.
Hindley died in hospital, still a prisoner, in November 2002 at the age of 60.
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