Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

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…

— Pete Doherty

My older sister, Amy Jo, and I - we are the first generation of my family to stay on at school and…

— Pete Doherty

He kind of makes me ill, David Cameron. I liked the old-fashioned Tory - like Winston Churchill, who had style. But Cameron's…

— Pete Doherty

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…

— Pete Doherty

Once you realize that what I’m saying is true and comes from the heart, then it’s easy. But if you see it…

— Pete Doherty

I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed…

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

When I was 16, walking down Oxford Street, I saw Ian Brown. I said, 'Are you Ian Brown?' He said no and…

— 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…

— Pete Doherty

At school, I was always the new boy, so I always went in for the school play. It was a way of…

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

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

— 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

The rush that you get from having a good night's sleep is so exotic: to feel powerful and clean, capable and potent,…

— Pete Doherty

The media circus got a bit twisted when I was in London. It became a bit of a joke, really. In Paris,…

— 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…

— Pete Doherty

The fact that I'm obviously well enough to be playing - in fine fettle and fine singing voice, yet I am not…

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

Money wasn't important to me. Once I discovered music, I was quite happy to live as a bum. As long as I…

— Pete Doherty

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

— Pete Doherty

I can't see why people call me a bad influence. I meet a lot of kids who are into music. I spend…

— Pete Doherty

When inspiration and emotions are sudden, and you can truly capture something, then, yeah, of course it feels good. But when you’re…

— 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…

— Pete Doherty

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

— 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…

— Pete Doherty