I've always had this impulse to be destructive.
It's highly psychological, and very beautiful, and overwhelming, and real, and trippy!
I've always been a 'your parents have got to come up to the school' type of person. Even now, when I do something wrong - if I say something inappropriate on a live tv show, for example - I half expect to have to deliver a note to Barbara Brand: 'Please come up to Channel 4 head office, Russell's done something despicable.
My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.
I'm a vegetarian. I believe that we're all equal. I ain't got no right to kill. Say a fly comes in my house, I tolerate that little a**hole.
Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.
I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.
There's an interconnectivity between what's in the consciousness of cat and what's in the consciousness of us.
Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D.
What should happen is a little voice in your head, like Jimmy Cricket in Pinocchio, will go 'But Russell, that bird, that's a creature like you, if you kill it it'll be all sad' and you go 'F***, alright. I won't kill it then.'
The Holy Spirit ain't got a pen.
It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook.
Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.
Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iPhone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory.
I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.
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.
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.
Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard".
There was [really] little difference between someone acting throwing french fries in your face and someone throwing french fries in your face.
When I first became famous in the United Kingdom it was helpful because it meant there wasn't a spite of 'this bloke's a drug addict,' 'this bloke f**ks all these women' because I was just making jokes about all those things already, so it made me some kind of incorruptible indefatigable, indestructible force.
All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.
When you bump into your own mom at an orgy, it's hard not to get her to read into certain things.
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.
... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be.
People don't realize that the future is just now, but later.
"I am too busy thinking about killing myself."
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