Russell Edward Brand (born 4 June 1975) is an English comedian, actor, radio host, author, and activist.
I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga.
The Holy Spirit ain't got a pen.
We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.
There's no biological reason why a man shouldn't just try to have sex with every woman he meets - all of them get pregnant and your genetics are winning.
It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years.
What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.
I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.
How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.
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. '
I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.
My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.
The best thing you can do is fall in love. My life has been changed by falling in love.
If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one's enemies.
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.
The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.
The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other. --Slavoj Zizek
You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!
I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have
I also quite like to be recognized by children; I find it sweet.