"By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded."
"I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence."
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Source: Russell Brand: This charming man. Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.
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