Russell Brand In Details Magazine

 

Russell Brand took some time out of his busy schedule to chat with Details Magazine about his new film Arthur, being married to superstar Katy Perry, and recovering from addiction among other things.

Check out some highlights below:

On his marriage to Katy: “There are a lot of areas where I¹ve simply relinquished decision-making. It really does make my mates laugh, though.”

On his tabloid-fueled rocker-sex-god persona:  “Well, it seems obvious that to turn myself into a character‹incredibly theatrical and rock-and-roll and languid and sexualized‹was to emphasize areas where I was confident, to draw the eye from the obvious deficit of a man only just getting over being a junkie.  I’m very confident in the physical manifestation of a rocker.  And there are aphorisms I still deem tight: the carnal self is the true self. In that barbaric, marauding period of promiscuity, there was a type of Aleister Crowley ŒDo what thou wilt as the sum of the law.  That voice you use when you come?  I was using it to perform.  Not some distant, attic-dwelling emotion brought out occasionally, like a front room you never use except when the vicar visits.  I was in there fucking all the time.”

On coping with addiction: “The only way to cope is with a program.  If you stop doing recovery, even eating too much chocolate, something will flare up, and I know where that leads, because I’ve been there before.  To me, gravity is heroin, and then death.”