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

I've been wanting to tell people my theory about what goes on after time. It's beyond our consciousness. We get glimpses of it between the infrared and the ultraviolet - the narrow narrow corridor of light that we are able to perceive.

Surfing should be called "foam-choking" or "sea stabbing.

I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have

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.'

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

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.