Russell Brand

I regret that I didn__ realize that actually they__e got no power over you at school _ it__ all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel, children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.

Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet.

And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.

This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water.

Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

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.

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 didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.

Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq _ that's got to be quantified in the same way as the cinematic glamorous violence that happens in recognisable cities.

My modus operandi is that I'll be content with anything, as long as I know that it's the best that's possible.

Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.

Being famous is like a little bit of you is taken away and goes off and lives on its own and does what it wants... I wish it would do more interesting things!

Spurred by Amy__ death I__e tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.

What was so painful about Amy__ death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don__ pick up a drink or drug, one day at a time. It sounds so simple; it actually is simple but it isn__ easy; it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.

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.