The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

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

I know that's the sort of thing people say and I really hate it when people say the sort of things people say. I always think, 'You don't mean that, you just think it sounds good.

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.

I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that I particularly feel I need. I know that I have dramatically changing moods, and I know sometimes I feel really depressed, but I think that's just life. I don't think of it as, "Ah, this is mental illness," more as, "Today, life makes me feel very sad." I know I also get unnaturally high levels of energy and quickness of thought, but I'm able to utilize that.

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo.

The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.