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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

Life , World , Beauty , Football

“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

“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

“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

“"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 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

“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

“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

“I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.”

Pete Doherty

Who The Fuck is Pete Doherty (2005)
People

People , Feeling

“Each man kills the things he loves.”

Pete Doherty

I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.
Definitions and objects

Love , Making love