Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

Drugs are a very selfish thing.

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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.

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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.

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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?'

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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.

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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.

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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.

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

I'm a good man.

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty

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.