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.

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.

I really, really love children and I think probably among children is when I feel mostly berated. It's not like I feel like oh, there's some children here. I have to tone it down. I go nuts with children especially when I ain't got none. So when I'm round my mates' children, I jest them kids up first. I swear at them, I get more worked up, I say crazy stuff to them, fill their heads with nonsense and then I leave them.

When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

There's an interconnectivity between what's in the consciousness of cat and what's in the consciousness of us.

The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

No one shuts their laptop after looking at pornography and says, 'What a productive time I just spent connecting with the world!'