Pete Doherty: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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

People , Chance

“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

“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

Love , People , Feeling

“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

“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

Love , Faith , Music