My mate Karl once told me heโd been looking after this five-year-old boy who โ not knowing enough to have an ironic inflection to his words โ said, โI want something.โ He didnโt know what it was. Not โI want sweetsโ, or โa can of Cokeโ, or โto watch the Tweeniesโ, or whatever it is theyโre into now (I like Bagpuss), but โI want something.โ All of us, I think, have that feeling. And what heroin does when you first start taking it is tell you what that something is.
Russell BrandI think all of us are living in denial of our spiritual nature as we continue to participate in the material world even though we know we're destroying the planet we live on.
Russell BrandThe happiest moments in our life aren't "Oh I got a new hat or a wonderful silvery object, some glistening bauble." But it's when you connect with another human being. If you can find the $18 in your pocket, you are purchasing dreams with that money.
Russell Brand... 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.
Russell Brand