Russell Brand Talks to Rolling Stone

“I’m constantly distracted by my ambition, narcissism, vanity, desire, lust… I don’t pretend to enjoy anonymity.”

Brand opens up about everything from his rough working-class childhood (”[I was] tubby and unlovely and odd and obscure and bland,” he says) to his battle with a debilitating drug addiction. Brand has since kicked his addictions, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t still get his rocks off.

“Whilst on tour, I masturbate a little bit, but not too much,” Brand admits. “It’s similar to the monkeys you see masturbating at the zoo, where it’s like ‘Zookeeper! Zookeeper! There’s something wrong with that monkey! And then, of course, if you ejaculate onto yourself, there’s that beautiful, transcendent, orgasmic moment of relief, then you walk to the bathroom, clean up and you catch yourself in the mirror and it’s like, ‘I don’t know what you’re looking at! Kings have done that!’”

With six feature films in the works, Brand is poised to supersaturate the country, but he still has some demons to overcome. “Going on a voyage of self-discovery isn’t as exciting as getting your c-ck sucked while chomping on chocolate and playing Nintendo, is it?” Brand wonders. “Ultimately, it’s more gratifying. And my life will be ascetic and about denial. But I’m not there yet, so the conflict continues.”

On proposing to Katy Perry: “It was amazing. I didn’t make the decision (to propose). It just rolled out like a carpet to walk upon. But now I’ve met someone who I care about enough for change to become an imperative. She’s a perfectly lovely, decent person, good fun and engaging, easy to be around and interesting. Meeting her changed me. With her, I don’t feel like I’m fulfilling some bizarre psychological fetish… I want to be in union with her and in denial of my biological drives… I hope it works. It’s a new experience for me.”