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“"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

Love , Beauty

“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

“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

People , Understanding

“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 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

Love , Lovers

“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

People , Way , Imagination , Idea

“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

Sea

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

Pete Doherty

Definitions and objects

Future

“They left me, by the side of the road, with a plastic bag and all kinds of bitterness Well, in my mind, and I can say this forever I suppose, and people might laugh at it, but I don't think I ever really left The Libertines, nor can I ever leave The Libertines, you know, having been a founder of the band with Carl, but that sounds silly, doesn't it, seeing as they played all the festivals without me and made it difficult, no - impossible, for me to play live with them.”

Pete Doherty

December 2004, Newsnight; when asked whether he left The Libertines or The Libertines left him
Music and politics

People , Thinking

“Basically, too many other people made important decisions for us and we just wrote songs and worried about clothes and girls. In the early days he came round once with this girl who had convinced him that I was just a weirdo and that we had an unhealthy relationship. He sat me down and said, “Maybe we shouldn’t see so much of each other? Maybe we should knock the band on the head? It’s not really going anywhere, is it?" I was desperate for us to stick together and see it through because I never stopped believing. When we got signed, Carl was shocked. I had prepared myself and had been reading the NME since I was 16. Carl wasn’t like that.”

Pete Doherty

Mail On Sunday, September 2008
Carl Barat

People , Girl , Decision , Reading