Russell Brand

As a person... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

I'm into yoga, I meditate all the time, I'm vegetarian.

No-one really feels self-confident deep down becuase it's an artifical idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persucted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

I also quite like to be recognized by children; I find it sweet.

Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God.

The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The best thing you can do is fall in love. My life has been changed by falling in love.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have.

As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.

Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone.

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I really like women a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually.

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.

I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga.

We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.

Everyone has their own mantra.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo…

No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

Eventually, I think you find a spiritual and emotional connection with someone, and I think it unifies you with everyone else. I think if you love one person, it makes you love everyone. That's how I feel now.

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.

I'll not be changing, but America will.