On himself and Peter Doherty in an NME interview (2006-12-06)
Source: Thirst No. 3: The Eternal Dawn
“The learning process continues until the day you die. ”
Source: Detective Story (2008), p. 66.
Context: "You mustn’t forget about your future, Enrique."
"I’m living for the present, Dad."
"Ah!" he waved that aside. "The present is just temporary."
‘ I boiled up. "I know," I burst out. ‘It only has to be accepted temporarily — temporarily, but every day afresh. And every day ever more. Temporarily. Until we have lived to the end of our temporary lives, and one fine day we temporarily die.
“We're waiting for the dinosaurs to die out. They will die. And then we'll move into their homes.”
1992-02-14 at Kokusai Koryu Centre, Osaka, Japan
Stage banter
Lyrics added to "We Shall Overcome" by Seeger in the late 1940s, whose musical arrangement and renditions helped popularize the song among civil-rights activists in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He also changed the primary lines from from "We Will Overcome" to "We Shall Overcome".
“I'm a fool, but I'll love you dear
Until the day I die
Now and then there's a fool such as I.”
(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I (1952)
Context: Now and then there's a fool such as I am over you.
You taught me how to love
And now you say that we are through.
I'm a fool, but I'll love you dear
Until the day I die
Now and then there's a fool such as I.
