“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
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English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist 1979

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