Re: John Lennon' killer
"I have no excuse. This was for self-glory. I think it's the worst crime that there could be to do something to someone that's innocent. He was extremely famous.
I didn't kill him because of his character or the kind of man he was. He was a family man. He was an icon. He was someone that spoke of things that now we can speak of and it's great.
I want to add that and emphasise that greatly. It was an extremely selfish act. I'm sorry for the pain that I caused to her. I think about it all of the time."
In 2015, the Japanese artist - who has contested each one of Chapman's attempts at parole - told The Daily Beast that she lived in fear of him being let out of prison.
"One thing I think is that he did it once, he could do it again, to somebody else - you know. It could be me, it could be Sean [her son], it could be anybody, so there is that concern," she said.