Top 119 Quotes & Sayings by Pete Doherty - Page 2

I've never actually learnt scales. I should someday.

I reached the point where I was getting arrested all the time in London. I couldn't walk down the street. London becomes a very small village, eventually. You run out of places. It was inescapable.

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

Amy Winehouse asked me a while ago if I had written any new songs. I played her something, and when I had finished, she looked at me and said, 'Is that it? Is that all you've got?'

I like touring. It's like a school trip.

In a way, I'm always working with Mick Jones. I feel like he's watching over me all the time. We talk about everything: history quite a lot. Balloons and wars and old football players. The Clash.

I made the fatal mistake of trying to cut my own hair. It makes me look like I have a good face for radio.

Being skint, drunk, paranoid - no, I don't wish that for myself.

Anyone can feel amazing if you're with someone you love.

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

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.

No, I never surround myself with people I hate.

I've lived in Liverpool, London, Belfast, Germany, Coventry, Dorset, and Cyprus.

I used to write songs to get love, but now that I have it, I don't feel the need to anymore.

Maybe I'm actually an optimist.

Drugs are a very selfish thing.

Liverpool and London are two places I looked upon as home.

The fact that I'm obviously well enough to be playing - in fine fettle and fine singing voice, yet I am not playing with The Libertines - is a sore point.

I'd never say I wouldn't fight a war. In different ages, I would have done. I'd have fought the Vikings.

I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life.

I can't see why people call me a bad influence. I meet a lot of kids who are into music. I spend as much time as I can with them. I listen to their demos, and I'm encouraging.

I wish I had better contact with my family.

My older sister, Amy Jo, and I - we are the first generation of my family to stay on at school and do any exams at all.

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

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.

The only thing that makes sense to me that I've learnt over the years is knocking tunes together.

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.

Every day I wake up in Paris, it's real tranquillity. No pressure. I'm out of the grasp of people. I don't have a phone, and I drift a little bit.

I've always enjoyed acting, and there's more than a degree of it involved in singing live on stage.

'You Talk' was originally a copy of a certain Velvet Underground song.

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.

If Oasis is the sound of a council estate singing its heart out, then the Libertines sounded like someone just putting something in the rubbish chute at the back of the estate, trying to work out what day it is.

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.

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

I hate to say it - it breaks my heart - but we're a tacky, money-obsessed culture.

I have a very bad relationship with the future. We don't get on. We just ignore each other.

I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.

I’m vain because I’m imperfect.

I'm not a suicidal person at all, but on paper it seems that I am. I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways. You always think it's going to be fine, the body will repair itself. There will be another chance. But I'm 33 now. The body won't keep repairing itself. You know when you can flick a coin and catch it on your elbow, and flick it up and catch it on the back of your head? And then you can't even catch it with two hands any more. You realise something is wrong.

'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.

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?

Once you realize that what I’m saying is true and comes from the heart, then it’s easy. But if you see it all as a façade and just a presentation of affected emotion, then it’s not so easy, it’ll just confuse you.

I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

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.

I love her but I wouldn't marry her if she [Kate Moss] was the last woman on earth.

Open your heart. Don't be spiteful.

It's just about bein' yourself...even when you're on the dole, it's about your leather jacket. Music is the last refuge of the working class, along with football...in fact, gigs and riots are the only things left.

You want to dance. You want to sing. Yeah, that feeling, of course, is beyond recollection really.

Mix your drinks, and it's best not to cry over spilt milk, but put it back in the bottle.

If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...

I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.

When inspiration and emotions are sudden, and you can truly capture something, then, yeah, of course it feels good. But when you’re stunted, and you’re having trouble expressin’ yourself, then obviously it doesn’t. So it’s never constant.

I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn't always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.

No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.

The world that surrounded me disgusted me so I chosen to invent one of my own.

I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.

The more that you follow me, the more I get lost

Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?

I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.