As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.

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.

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 am too busy thinking about killing myself.

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I'm famous now. But now that I've got fame and some of the other things I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked