Top 60 Pete Doherty Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

I’m a good man.

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.

I have too many debts with the wrong people.

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

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

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

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.

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’ve never actually learnt scales. I should someday.

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.

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

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.

I quite like 50 Cent.

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.

I’m always looking over my shoulder.

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

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

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

Drugs are a very selfish thing.

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

I hate seeing myself misquoted.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

No, I never surround myself with people I hate.

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

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

I’m not an activist. I’m a fantasist.

I love Paris.

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

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.

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.’

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

I wish I had better contact with my family.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.