Pete Doherty

Musician

96 Quotes

I'm not an activist. I'm a fantasist.

He kind of makes me ill, David Cameron. I liked the old-fashioned Tory - like Winston Churchill, who had style. But Cameron's like a new breed - computer-generated. I hate it.

Humanity's always been weird at heart. Look at how societies form, rituals, practices, even rock n' roll. Humanity really is dark and twisted.

This bloke in Rome once took his camera off and cracked me round the head with it, and I'm bleeding. He was a bit bigger than me, the Italian photographer, but I thought, 'I can't back down now,' so I sort of squared up to him. Luckily, my mate jumped round and bit him on the neck.

I'm not really a fighter, but I've never backed down from anyone in Paris. I feel I can't. In London, I'll just run because I'm not going to fight 50 Wolverhampton Wanderers fans.

I'm a dreamer. That often helps me, no matter how crappy things become.

It's not enough to play the old songs; that feels like being your own covers band or something. It's a big release to do new stuff.

When you split up with someone, someone that you're seriously in love with, it takes a lot of time before you even realise that you're upset. You know? It just hits you.

'Gunga Gin' is a true Libertines amalgamation, in the proper, old-fashioned sense of the word.

When I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

When you see a photograph of a football crowd at a Saturday afternoon game in August 1963, you've got 40,000 men in trilbies. That's paradise, man.

In my own sweet way, I'm quite a superficial person.

I have too many debts with the wrong people.

My brother and I are not rivals. We are shipmates and best friends and the greatest songwriting partnership in the world.

Money wasn't important to me. Once I discovered music, I was quite happy to live as a bum. As long as I had my music and my band, I was happy.

I've been thinking about my life, my loss of friends, relationships, opportunities, money, my values. There's also the loss of relationship with my son and my daughter, who I've only met once. All that loss - I just got so good at blocking it out.

That was my fantasy, actually - to become a billionaire, buy the 'Sun' and the 'Mirror,' and close them down.

There's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y'know what I mean?

I've turned my back on fancy parties and red carpets. I'm a writer, and if I did that, I'd never get anything done.

My sound is just vintage Vox AC30s and Marshalls... Matchless amps are cool as well.

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