Pete Doherty: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Make no mistake
She sheds her skin like a snake
On the dirty road to fame.”

Pete Doherty

"There She Goes (A Little Heartache)"
Lyrics and poetry

“Has there ever been a musician of cultural significance who's been aware they're significant? Maybe it's a generation whose parents came from a working class environment and because they were rootless in a way, like me and him, they latched onto that as an identity. Maybe we romanticise what our parents wanted to escape from. We're, like, fantasising out a living.”

Pete Doherty

NME (New Musical Express), March 13, 2004
Music and politics

Way , Parent

“I was so, so lost and unhappy. If you listen to the songs on the first album, you can hear it. They’re really sad songs and they come from a lonely place. The relationship broke up, and I went into free fall. I saw drugs as a way of avoiding…the darkness.”

Pete Doherty

The Sunday Times, May 14, 2006
Drugs

Sadness , Way

“I got headbutted in Wolverhampton. You [Carl] get snogged in Northampton, head butted in Wolverhampton and I won't even tell you what happened in Southampton. Basically Carlos gets the love and I get all the head butts, it seems to be the way of things.”

Pete Doherty

2002
Carl Barat

Love , Way

“It's one and the same, one and the same
What's the use between death and glory?
Hard to choose between death and glory
Happy endings they never bored me
Happy endings, they still don't bore me
They have a way, a way to make you pay
And to make you toe the line
Now I'm severing the ties because
I'm so clever but clever ain't wise”

Pete Doherty

"Fuck Forever"
Lyrics and poetry

Death , Way , Happiness

“Music when the lights go out
Love goes cold in shades of doubt
The strange face in my mind is all too clear
Music when the lights come on
The girl I thought I knew has gone
And with her my heart has disappeared”

Pete Doherty

"Music When the Lights Go Out" (with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

Love , Music , Girl , Light

“Basically there’s a gulf between truth and untruth, I don’t want to be too mathematical about it, because I’m not very good at maths. But it’s a divide between, I dunno, a film and a cartoon. I’ve just become this cartoon character. I try not to follow it, but when you see pictures of yourself that have been photo-shopped to show you doing something you didn’t…. that’s wrong. It’s my worst nightmare – and being misquoted, too, especially as I’m so precious about words.”

Pete Doherty

Speaking out on the media's caricature of him
People

Truth , Photo , Mathematics

“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 prevailed in this country. I’m up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.”

Pete Doherty

Metro, August 25, 2006
Music and politics

Passion , Fight , Country

“New York City's very pretty in the night-time
But oh, don't you miss Soho?”

Pete Doherty

"The Boy Looked at Johnny"(with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

Time , Night

“I knew I was destined for London, so I came to live with my nan in her council flat. It was the summer after my A-levels. Got a job in Willesden cemetery. I was getting a man’s wage, filling in graves. Stood around while they did the last rites. Cut the grass. A lot of the time I’d just sit on the gravestones and read and write. Scribbling away.”

Pete Doherty

The Sunday Times, May 16, 2006
Britain

Grass , Time , Reading , Summer

“The Thames and the Mersey, the Tyne and the Wear and the Clyde
They spew slums like gravy on the banks of the poisonous tide
They washed up a pale thin girl
Alone in her ivory tower
Scratching her skin with the thorns that grow
On the stems of the wild flowers
What became of the love we knew?
We beat the swine black and blue
You and I
Me and you
What became of the love we knew?
What became of the working class?
Nike, Reebok, Adidas
Scratchcards, pitbulls, ecstasy
Hooray for the 21st Century”

Pete Doherty

"Hooray for the 21st Century"
Lyrics and poetry

Love , Girl , Flowers , Swine

“When she wakes up in the morning
She writes down all her dreams
Reads like the Book of Revelations
Or the Beano or the unabridged Ulysses
Oh, I really wanna know
So tell me, Where does all the money go?
Where does all the money go?
Straight, straight up her nose”

Pete Doherty

"What a Waster"(with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

Money , Books , Dreams , Reading

“Well, I'll tell you a story but you won't listen
It's about a nightmare steeped in tradition
It's the story of a coked-up pansy
Who spends his nights in flights of fancy

Met two fellas over gin and mixers
They talked for a while, he soon got the picture
One was a souped up Soho mincer
And the other was a pikey with a knowledge of scripture”

Pete Doherty

"La Belle et la Bete"
Lyrics and poetry

Knowledge , Night

“I’m vain because I’m imperfect.”

Pete Doherty

The Sunday Times, May 14, 2006
Miscellaneous

“The story of The Libertines starts for me when it was me, Carl Barât and Steve Bedlow sat on the side of a canal, throwing stones at a bottle and we had a game where whoever hit the bottle first with the stone got to choose the name of the band - I can't even remember who it was that hit the bottle but, yeah, from that night onwards we became The Libertines. We ended up throwing ourselves into eternity, as we called it at the time”

Pete Doherty

On how The Libertines got their name
Definitions and objects

Game , Time , Night

“I think it's woken me up to a few things, and you do become complacent. As well as being anti something, you've got to be pro something. So you're anti racism, so what are you pro? You're pro community. I would put my hand on my heart and I'd attach myself to socialist ideas. Because I believe in society. And it's bollocks that black people have any less worth in society than white people, which is basically what people like the BNP say.”

Pete Doherty

2004, The Socialist Review; on what the Love Music, Hate Racism campaign could achieve today
Music and politics

People , Communication , Idea , Thinking

“Her old man, he don't like blacks or queers
Yet he's proud we beat the Nazis
How queer…”

Pete Doherty

"Arbeit Macht Frei"(with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

“I realise it’s proved to people that I don’t love them. It’s dawning on me now that if I say I love someone… it’s like lying, really. As long as I’m taking it, the lie continues. I’ve got a lot of proving myself to do.”

Pete Doherty

The Sunday Times, May 14, 2006
Drugs

Love , People , Lie , Lying

“I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life. You don't need to control your drug intake to lead a free life. Whether you take no drugs at all or everything you can get your hands on, a free life is separated from that.”

Pete Doherty

NME (New Musical Express), December 15, 2006
Drugs

Life , Exercises

“That’s right, but I’m not sure it’s my place to talk about drugs. I’d rather take them or not take them - but not talk about them.”

Pete Doherty

Metro, August 25, 2006 (When asked if he was trying to stop taking drugs)
Drugs