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“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

“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

“"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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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)

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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