My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.

- Russell Brand

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

- Russell Brand

I'll not be changing, but America will.

- Russell Brand

I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga.

- Russell Brand

Everyone has their own mantra.

- Russell Brand

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

- Russell Brand

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

- Russell Brand

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

- Russell Brand

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.

- Russell Brand

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

- Russell Brand

As a person... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

- Russell Brand

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

- Russell Brand

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.

- Russell Brand

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.

- Russell Brand

I also quite like to be recognized by children; I find it sweet.

- Russell Brand

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.

- Russell Brand

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

- Russell Brand

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.

- Russell Brand

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

- 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.

- Russell Brand