Quotes from Russell Brand

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.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

Have you been out in society recently? 'Cause it's SHIT.

I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!

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 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.

Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.

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

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.

If your body is 90% water what have you got to drink water all the time for? Why can't you just have some crisps?

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.

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.

The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

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

For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.

Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.

When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

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.

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