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“There are three things that I know a bit about in my life and that's QPR, my guitar and drugs. I know QPR are the best football team in the world, my guitar is the most beautiful thing I own and that I don't take enough drugs to kill me. It isnt drugs that I need to get rid of; it's the demons that fill my head. Once I have come to terms with my demons, maybe I'll be able to get clean.”

Pete Doherty

Definitions and objects

“What did I dream? Oh, what did I dream?
No one can keep me from my…
No one could keep me from my…
No fucker gonna keep me from my…
Oh, what did I dream?”

Pete Doherty

"Loyalty Song"
Lyrics and poetry

“The more you read and the more you teach yourself, the less you rely on something like drugs to take you to a better place.”

Pete Doherty

Definitions and objects

“After years of entrenched drug abuse, you have a mourning period. I know it’s a bit sad, but I’m in mourning. I’m in mourning for an armful.”

Pete Doherty

NME (New Music Express), November 5, 2007 (days before heroin relapse)
Drugs

“Doff your cap and raise your glasses,
Make a toast to the boring classes
I'm burning your secrets to keep me warm.”

Pete Doherty

"Love on the Dole"
Lyrics and poetry

“No, because it's not like they're the only songs we have. They're like children; you shouldn't really have a favourite. Unless one of your kids develops into a pervert.”

Pete Doherty

February 2005, Guitar and Bass, on whether publishing Babyshambles songs online would cause legal problems when they were released on an album.
Miscellaneous

Pete Doherty Quotes about love

“"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.”

Pete Doherty

Definitions and objects

“I was a troubled teen
Who put an advert in a magazine
To the annoyance of my imaginary lover
She doubted my integrity
And this is what she said to me:
She said, "Oh, you, you're green
You don't know what love means
Well, let me tell you”

Pete Doherty

"I Love You (But You're Green)"
Lyrics and poetry

“If you've lost your faith in love and music
The end won't be long
But if it's gone for you I too may lose it
And that would be wrong…”

Pete Doherty

"The Good Old Days" (with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

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

Pete Doherty

Metro, August 25, 2006
Britain

“There are fewer more distressing sights
than that of an Englishman in a baseball cap
Yeah, we'll die in the class we were born
That's a class of our own, my love”

Pete Doherty

"Time for Heroes"(with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

“There's a slow train rumbling east of a place called Eden
Feeling wind-blown and proud as the trees upon the plain
And a stranger's voice talked to me of liberty and freedom
Yeah, it seems like he done gone wrong again
And he wears that hat like shame
Well he tasted the fruit of another
And when his Margie, when she discovered
Said she's gonna love him ten times more
Ain't nobody's business if she do”

Pete Doherty

"East of Eden"
Lyrics and poetry

Pete Doherty Quotes about people

“I do have utopian fantasies. A lot of them are more - I wouldn't say spiritual, but they relate more to the imagination and the individual. But for me socialism is a way of trying to put far-fetched ideas into everyday use, trying to find a way to bridge the gap between that fantasy and reality, and reaching out across that gap to the people who can actually do something to make the change.”

Pete Doherty

Definitions and objects

“You've got to understand… these days I just can't afford to get involved [with the press]. People - they turn on you… on me. They write horrible things, deliberately twisting my words.”

Pete Doherty

On his growing wariness in talking to the media, Spin Magazine, Autumn 2007.
People

“With Oasis stepping up a gear and proving they've still got it, they need to be shown there are people out there who can surpass them. Can we match them? The quality is good (in Oasis), but there really is no competition because my band is the greatest in the world and we're going to prove it.”

Pete Doherty

May 2009, latest news
Oasis (band)

“Mental-stability, I would say. I’d like to achieve a fluidity, where everything stays consistent – always doing shows, always with the chance to release records, meeting new people.”

Pete Doherty

Rockfeedback.com (around 2002), when asked about his goals for the future.
Miscellaneous

“I made this big statement saying, "I've left The Libertines." A couple of people said, "You can't do that! You're such a great band! What are you gonna do about Brixton?" And some people said, "Well, I'd rather be here than Brixton." There's no reason you can't do both. If I was 16 or 17 and Morrissey opened his front door to me and let me go and listen to him and chat to him it would be a joy. Why not? It's possible. I don't really have that much else going on in my life.”

Pete Doherty

On removing the barriers between performers and audiences, NME (New Musical Express), March 13, 2004.
People

“It's that mysterious thing called hype. I've looked under every rock, and I couldn't find out what it means. Certain people hear a certain melody, and they're attracted to it. I'm in love with that feeling. We're looking for fun and adventure and a bit of redemption and somewhere to live. Everything else is a blind venture into the unknown.”

Pete Doherty

Definitions and objects

Pete Doherty: Trending quotes

“"We've had death threats", Pete says, "saying, 'You're evil and your days are numbered." What was it, "Don't panic but be scared". Someone shat on our doorstep once and nailed a sparrow to our basement door. I don't mind, me. I'll out-weird any stalker.”

Pete Doherty

On the downside of fame, NME (New Musical Express), March 13, 2004
People

Death , Evil

“And if lust and depair
Are two bullets in the same gun
Well we've been playing Russian Roulette for far too long”

Pete Doherty

Breck Road Lover
Lyrics and poetry

“I think I only needed something to hold on to. It has never been about depravity. It's always been about melody. But melody and I met in many depraved situations. Meeting melody is the victory of the empty spiralling nightmare.”

Pete Doherty

Extract from Prison Diaries, published in The Guardian, 2006
Music and politics

Thinking , Victory

Pete Doherty Quotes

“They've been around me since day one, but so has corduroy. Know what I mean? Drugs don't create the sound - they might just change the pitch slightly. Or make you spell a word wrong.”

Pete Doherty

Loaded Magazine, August 2008
Drugs

Change

“She was getting pally with a scally in the alley
Giving head for gear
She called a spade a spade
Got slit from ear to ear
I showed no decorum
Spilled my heart out on the forum
Like a snapshot of the most tragic day
Carl is kept sedated, for the frontman elevated
While McGee does all he can to ruin my band and keep me out the way
In this industry of fools, musclemen and ghouls
If you're not a puppet or a muppet then you might as well call it a day
The truth gets so distorted
The wall scrapings get snorted
I'm welcome back if I give up crack
But you gave me my first pipe anyway”

Pete Doherty

"Gang of Gin" (never released owing to threats of legal action by pop mogul Alan McGee)
Lyrics and poetry

Truth , Fools , Way , Heart

“My idea of paradise is that period just before the sun rises and I’m at home painting or writing songs and everything is flowing. I pray that the sun won’t rise so I can paint and write for ever. That’s my ideal time.”

Pete Doherty

Mail On Sunday, September 2008
Miscellaneous

Home , Idea , Time , Sun

“We have played at venues up and down the country on this tour, some of which had no security, and have encountered no problems or witnessed any aggression. I simply asked the bouncer last night to apologise for his behaviour, three times in fact, and he refused. I was very upset at his attitude and although I'm very sorry for letting everyone down last night, I refuse to play at venues where pumped up, 16 stone men feel the need to be aggressively rude and to bully teenage kids around.”

Pete Doherty

After cancelling a gig at the Barfly, August 2004
People

Men , Feeling , Problem , Time

“Oh promises, promises
I know you've heard them all before
Love is, love is, love is, love is, love is…

Oh well, it's just around the corner”

Pete Doherty

"Back From The Dead"
Lyrics and poetry

Love

“If you're looking for a cheap sort
Glint with perspiration
There's a five mile queue
Outside the disused powerstation”

Pete Doherty

"Albion"
Lyrics and poetry

“She said, "I'll show you a picture,
A picture of tomorrow,
There's nothing changing, it's all sorrow."

"Oh, no, please don't show me
I'm a swine, you don't wanna know me!"”

Pete Doherty

"Horrorshow" (with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

Swine , Change

“I defy you all
To know twice as much as nothing at all
It's still nothing at all.”

Pete Doherty

"A'Rebours"
Lyrics and poetry

“The red-faced president took afternoon tea
With her majesty The Queen
And they watched old films flicker
Across the old palace movie screen
Crying, "What a shame!"
As she slipped in the rain
Poor dancing girl
Well, she won't dance again…”

Pete Doherty

"Radio America"(with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

Girl , Dance , Tea , Cry

“Why should I wait until tomorrow?
I've already been
I've already seen
All the sorrow that's in store”

Pete Doherty

"Beg Steal or Borrow"
Lyrics and poetry

Waiting

“I can't believe you've listed everything
I stole since we met
But I stole no kisses
Just some books
And the odd cigarette”

Pete Doherty

"Love Reign o'er Me"
Lyrics and poetry

Books , Kiss

“And he's crossing the road,
He's picking up his Daily…Star”

Pete Doherty

"Begging" (with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

Star

“Until I was nine years old I thought 'cunt' was a term of endearment”

Pete Doherty

Definitions and objects

“I still do. It's changed a lot. It started off as something ancient and forgotten; and became something modern and real. I just couldn't swim. The tunnels get narrower and narrower.”

Pete Doherty

NME (New Musical Express), December 15, 2006, when asked if he still believes in Arcadia.
Arcadia

Change

“There's a point you reach before you're perverted and tainted by all the things that drag you into the music business, like avarice or a lust for fame. The original reason why I started was some feeling of community, equality, wanting to fight for things you believe in. Any kid who's gone to a state school knows what it's all about - bullying, racism. And you've just got to make a stand.”

Pete Doherty

2004, The Socialist Review; on why it was important to do the Love Music, Hate Racism gig
Music and politics

School , Music , Feeling , Communication

“In the morning theres a buzz of flies
Between the pillows and the skies that beg into your eyes
Through the looking glass in between your thighs
It's really no small surprise
How it goes straight down the rabbit hole
There it goes”

Pete Doherty

"Through the Looking Glass"
Lyrics and poetry

“Yeah, well, I subscribe to the Umberto Eco view that Noel is a Poet and Liam is a town crier.”

Pete Doherty

Gigwise, 1997
Oasis (band)

“I got bitten last night actually. Just some bloke bit me. I wasn't doing anything and he just bit me. I was in a public telephone box in the centre of London and some fella came up and started biting me. Nah, I didn't bite him back. I hit him with a telephone, right on the hooter and it exploded like a ripe tomato”

Pete Doherty

July, 2003
Miscellaneous

Night , Box

“Once upon a time…
When the cold wind that blows,
when the cold wind that blows in my heart,
it was a summer breeze and she would meet me in Chinatown,
for opium and tea
and she always brought me flowers
but I spared you those old ballads
All those songs I couldn’t play
But every giro day she’d dress me like a lady boy
And take me high out of the way
Don’t let the horse chase the new deal away, no
If we make love in the morning
I see your eyes look like two marbles in your head”

Pete Doherty

"Lady Don't Fall Backwards"
Lyrics and poetry

Love , Making love , Way , Boy

“There's a man who came to stay
The boy he replaced, disappeared without a trace.
Stole all my songs and my style away
No-one would say what they wanted to say
So he was king for a day.
If you sail into the sun
Beware the eyes of green
And if the whole world tells you 'you are the one'
I defy you not to believe them, my son…”

Pete Doherty

"The Man Who Came to Stay"
Lyrics and poetry

World , Boy , Sun

“Drugs don’t work. They don’t even make you forget – only momentarily, because if something’s that painful, nothing’s going to make you forget it. You think they’ll fill the hole, but the hole just gets deeper… It’s like trying to fill in a hole without a spade.”

Pete Doherty

The Sunday Times, May 14, 2006
Drugs

Pain , Thinking , Forgetting

“With drugs, I think the sort of person that would die from an overdose is gonna die soon enough anyway, because they’ve got that will to destroy what’s left of their life.”

Pete Doherty

Rockfeedback.com
Drugs

Life , Thinking , Personality

“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.”

Pete Doherty

When asked whether he considered himself (and Carl) to be "intellectual", 2002
Definitions and objects

Hunger , Thinking , Learning

“You can't get that feeling anywhere else. It's communion. It's like being washed away in the ocean, carried aloft on a wave.”

Pete Doherty

On performing, interview by Neil McCormick, March 2003
Music and politics

Feeling

“‘You can only be so thick-skinned. You can only pretend not to care for so long before you have to admit that you hate being made to look like an idiot. I hate seeing myself misquoted. I hate being linked romantically with girls I’ve been close to for years but never slept with. It’s just upsetting, isn’t it? My nan reads and believes these things. I say, “Hiya Nan, how are you getting on?””

Pete Doherty

and she’ll say, “Are you all right? What about that cat you injected with crack?”’
Mail On Sunday, September 2008

Hate , Girl , Cats , Reading

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

Pete Doherty

NME (New Musical Express), November 2005
Definitions and objects

“If you get tired of just hanging around
Pick up a guitar, spin a web of sound
And then you could be strung out all day
With lovers and clowns
Now I find myself still hanging around”

Pete Doherty

"Ha Ha Wall"(with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

Lovers

“The main instinct a lot of the time is to masquerade and hide the truth at all times. Whereas in reality what happens in songs is laying bare the truth. So a lot of time it's fighting that instinct, and the songs become almost confessional. They can also be quite condescending to myself, almost like I'm putting myself down.”

Pete Doherty

Definitions and objects

Truth , Reality , Time , Fight

“Carl's all right. It's just like EastEnders really. He's still my kid.”

Pete Doherty

NME (New Musical Express), December 15, 2006, when asked if the Libertines were a perfect vehicle for his early dreams.
Carl Barat

“I know the basic facts cause they’ve been repeated again and again across various duty desk counters at police stations over the past months and years: I’m 6ft 2in, green-brown eyes. Distinguishing features: moles. Tattoos: loads. Got a wolf, a mermaid, a heart with a K in it. They don’t go through your personality traits.”

Pete Doherty

When asked how he sees himself, The Sunday Times, May 14, 2006
Definitions and objects

Wolf , Past , Heart , Tattoo

“Yes, it was riveting. Despite everything, you knew there was goodness there. Something to believe in. Something which is good, pure and untainted by anything.”

Pete Doherty

On meeting Carl Barat, The Guardian, January 2003.
Carl Barat

“Arcadia? The realm of the infinite? It's a poet's corner… It's not a cult or a religion – it's an awareness of your surroundings; you're not going to force yourself on anyone and, equally, no one's going to force themselves on you. And it's about community and pleasure. It came from a whisper through the trees. It came from a crack in the pavement. It can also come when you open a bag of crisps, or when you kick a football against a goalpost. Even if I was winding you up, it would still be true, because Arcadia and the Arcadian Dream is so deep, is so true to our hearts… It can be as powerful as your imagination can allow it to be. But, it can also be as dark and twisted as your soul… Arcadia encompasses the infinite, and that's why it comforts me.”

Pete Doherty

2002
Arcadia

Pleasure , Religion , Dreams , Soul

“I may be a fool, but I'm not a f**ker.”

Pete Doherty

From the BBC Documentary, Who the F is Pete Doherty? on what his thoughts of his ex-band mates opinions of him were at the time of their break up
Miscellaneous

Fools

“Just when you get really wound up, you turn a corner and you're somewhere else completely. You find an Arcadian glade - a glimpse of paradise in the middle of it all. And that's why you persevere. That's why you don't chuck yourself off a building or shoot yourself at the same time as someone else, like he [Carl] wanted us to.”

Pete Doherty

The Guardian, January 10, 2003.
Arcadia

Time , Perseverance

“It's not people in bands, is it? Why do people who take drugs, why are they in bands? 'Cos they're trying to prove themselves. To make themselves blank and numb and not able to communicate with other people.”

Pete Doherty

October 2002, NME (New Musical Express); when asked why people in bands take drugs
Drugs

People , Communication

“I knew she wasn't English
Because she spoke it far too well
The grammar was goodly, the verbs as they should be
And the slang was bang on the bell
So as the language barrier clanged and banged
I couldn't hear--hear or see
England, London, and Bow
Crumbled into the sea.”

Pete Doherty

Recited on Newsnight with Kirsty Wark, December 22, 2004
Lyrics and poetry