Brad Pitt is sad. Poor Brad. The hot humanitarian and insta-dad recently spoke with Parade Magazine about his occasionally gloomy side, the paparazzi and his charity work.

On doing good stuff:

“Whoever said all men are born equal never left his own backyard,” Pitt asserts. “I see people everywhere without opportunity. I want to help level the playing field.”

On whether Angie is responsible for his humanitarian work:

“That’s idiotic!” he replies. “I do it because I’m a member of the human race. In Africa you see people on the street dying from AIDS, children left without parents. We’re all cells of one body, with the same emotions and desires for our families–for a little dignity and a chance for a better life. Let’s focus on that! I believe in the founding principles of America. I want to fight for that. I know most Americans feel the same way.”

On celebrity:

“I understand the tabloid machine,” Pitt told the magazine. “There’s money to be made off Angie and me, but it has gotten out-of-hand. There’s no decency, even when it comes to our kids.”

“You start to see the fickleness of celebrity - that it isn’t rooted in something of real value,” he said. “There is this strange wanting by people to get next to you. It has nothing to do with you but with something they feel they are missing in themselves.”

On feeling sad:

“I always felt a pervasive sadness,” he said. “I’m not sure I earned it, because it was always there. It existed in the place where I grew up - in my family, in people who have true sweetness and true goodness. Maybe it’s a congenital sadness that everyone has to some degree.”

Wow, Brad Pitt is deep. Like big words, thick books, discussing poetry in coffee shops deep. I wonder if that’s going to be make our after-sex cuddling awkward when he starts talking about Africa and I’m trying to sleep.