Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I'll feel most at ease.

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.'

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.

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

You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!