Brand pondering fatherhood

Russell Brand thinks he will be "more powerful" if he doesn't have children.

The 'Arthur' actor – who is married to pop princess Katy Perry – admitted while he is keen to start a family with the 'E.T.' hitmaker in the future, he is worried about losing his "social ethics" when he becomes a father.

He said: "I would like to start a family, although sometimes I worry that if you have children, you are compromised in that you might lose your social ethics, because you've become genetically predisposed to protect that child.

"So sometimes I think that if you don't have children it makes you more powerful in terms of the fact that no-one can kill your children."

Meanwhile, Russell – who previously battled alcohol and drug addictions – explained while he was once excited by "wealth and lavish experiences", he is now happy to have "domesticity" with Katy.

He added to The Independent newspaper: "I think that once you're not poor – and I'm not poor anymore – your ambitions don't centre so much around wealth and lavish experience. They become more about domesticity and privacy.

"I'm no longer spellbound by excess or excited by, 'I'd like to hire out the Grand Canyon with lap dancers'. I don't do things like that anymore. Besides, it seems like a waste of a canyon."