Zitat des Tages von Russell Brand:
As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.
My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.
The bad-boy label is just an assumption.
I'm into yoga, I meditate all the time, I'm vegetarian.
I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.
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.
I also quite like to be recognized by children; I find it sweet.
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 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.
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.
In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.
As a person... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.
I'll not be changing, but America will.
Everyone has their own mantra.
I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga.
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.
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.
Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.
I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'
Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.
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.
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.