Top 119 Quotes & Sayings by Pete Doherty

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.

I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways.

Babyshambles were offered some money to have a comeback. Good band, they were - amazing tunes.

In the early days of the Libertines, we used to put on Arcadian cabaret nights. There'd be some girl climbing out of an egg; we'd try and get a couple of mates to tell a few jokes, performance poets, and then we'd play in the middle of it all. More people were on stage than in the crowd.

For a little while, maybe I did fall for my own mythology.

I remember when I was about 15 and still listened to Pet Shop Boys and Chas And Dave, some lad at school lent me a Blur tape, and it had on it a song called 'Bank Holiday.' I said, 'What's this? I liked that tape, but that one song is a bit fast'. He said, 'Yeah, it's punk. It depends what mood you're in.' And then something sort of clicked in me.

It's funny, but I always feel really safe on the streets of London. It's the most inspiring place to be in the world.

Each man kills the things he loves. I recognise that in myself - in relationships, even with guitars - beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

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.

So many actors say, 'Oh, I can't bear to see myself on screen,' but it's not true. Everyone loves to see themselves from a good angle.

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

If you don't wash your hair, it cleans itself. That applies to the human body as well.

I don't know; we'll see what happens with Brexit. If they make it so that you can't travel any more without a visa, I'm going to have to leave the country, stay in the E.U., and probably change my citizenship.

When you're young and idealistic, you don't care: you'll play to no one, in your bedroom - like kids with football - you'll play anywhere; you just love the music. And then, bang - soon as you're in the industry, you think that's the dream. But that's when the dream starts to end.

I'm always looking over my shoulder.

I'm not saying that maybe there isn't a kid out there whose behavior hasn't been influenced by me in some way. I'm sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you'd asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I'd admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that'd be a yes, totally. Right down to their hand gestures.

It was always my ambition to be on the cover of a free gay magazine.

The media circus got a bit twisted when I was in London. It became a bit of a joke, really. In Paris, they're so serious, I can take myself really seriously, too. I can get really morbid without people telling me to cheer up.

There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.

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

Spitalfields - I often find myself milling around there. I always go down Spitalfields whenever I can.

I quite like 50 Cent.

I'm blindingly optimistic. Ravingly optimistic.

At school, I was always the new boy, so I always went in for the school play. It was a way of breaking the ice and making friends with pupils and teachers for however long I had before moving on.

I have a distinct memory of friends I had at school whose parents were, for want of a better word, bohemian. That was the kind of England that I thought I should have belonged to.

I think Julian Casablancas and Amy Winehouse are two contemporaries I envy.

I never went to school in England until I was 12.

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 love life. I squeeze everything I can out of the day.

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

I could be anywhere. I just need my space to work.

Me and my dad, we're both quite nostalgic people.

The only way I see myself in a serious relationship is if I am toning it down a bit.

I just wanted to get on telly. I wasn't a massive Oasis fan, but I had to be in order to get on the telly.

I was always very softly spoken and kinda looked after myself.

I knew I had I a better album than 'Up the Bracket' in me, and I wanted to record it. But I was told we've got to keep touring, keep promoting. That was the first time I realised we were on a conveyor belt.

Music and fashion and art - they were the things we were willing to die for. 'Is my hair all right? Have you heard this tune?' They're the things that saved us. They're the things that are saving kids on Nuneaton council estates. There's no other way out.

It's never going to be hipster because you've got that smell that the sea gives out twice a day. That's why Margate will never be gentrified. However, there is art-led regeneration.

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

It's amazing, the number of people who don't have passports, who can't read, who can't write. It's sick actually. It's disgusting.

I'm a good man.

For any music aficionados out there, if you just play E to G, with a cool hairdo, you can't go wrong.

To get better, you have to get worse.

To meet my little girl for the first time was a humbling experience. She's got my eyes and a smile that just melts my heart.

Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.

Noel Gallagher is a poet, and Liam is a town crier.

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.

My family used to say, point-blank, 'We'd support you if we thought you could sing, or we thought you could write songs, but you can't.'

It's difficult talking about someone you love when you've split up with them, because it's painful to rake up all those old emotions again.

I feel a lot better when I've got a bit of cash on me.

I hate seeing myself misquoted.

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

When I was 16, walking down Oxford Street, I saw Ian Brown. I said, 'Are you Ian Brown?' He said no and walked off, but I am sure it was him.

I'm always up for a riot, but now and again, you've gotta put your feet up and enjoy the sunset.

I'm always nervous before playing a gig, to tell you the truth. It's what nearly did me in when I was with the Libertines. I just couldn't handle it.

You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting.

The rush that you get from having a good night's sleep is so exotic: to feel powerful and clean, capable and potent, as opposed to washed up, impotent and mute.

The Libertines is a lifelong trip with very dear friends that, for one reason or another, will never end.

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 have too many debts with the wrong people.