When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in…

I'm from Peterborough, which is two hours north of London.

— Jodie Turner-Smith

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on…

— Jeremy Corbyn

My mum, Jennie Buckman, was a north London Jew who, with my dad, proudly chose to raise me and my two brothers in Hackney.

— Zoe Buckman

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.

— Alan Parker

Like any working-class boy growing up in north London, I wanted to be a footballer.

— Martin Kemp

Islington, North London is just a magical place and I think Arsenal is core to it.

— Leah Williamson

Tottenham was a dope place to grow up because it's so community-based. It's a melting pot of cultures. I'll always be a north London…

— Letitia Wright

“We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.”

— Armistead Maupin

“The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men.”

— Charles Bracelen Flood

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

— Pete Doherty

If Oasis is the sound of a council estate singing its heart out, then the Libertines sounded like someone just putting something in the…

— 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;…

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

But, you never know when The Libertines is going to come along.

— Carl Barat

We didn't want to be another post-Libertines band singing about London and playing chords.

— James Righton