Pete Doherty Quotes

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Pete Doherty

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 12, 1979

To meet my little girl for the first time was a humbling experience. She's got my eyes and a smile that just melts my heart.

Pete Doherty

Noel Gallagher is a poet, and Liam is a town crier.

Pete Doherty

You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting.

Pete Doherty

If Oasis is the sound of a council estate singing its heart out, then the Libertines sounded like someone just putting something in the rubbish chute at the back of the estate, trying to work out what day it is.

Pete Doherty

It's not enough to play the old songs; that feels like being your own covers band or something. It's a big release to do new stuff.

Pete Doherty

'Gunga Gin' is a true Libertines amalgamation, in the proper, old-fashioned sense of the word.

Pete Doherty

I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life.

Pete Doherty

Amy Winehouse asked me a while ago if I had written any new songs. I played her something, and when I had finished, she looked at me and said, 'Is that it? Is that all you've got?'

Pete Doherty

I hate seeing myself misquoted.

Pete Doherty

I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways.

Pete Doherty

I made the fatal mistake of trying to cut my own hair. It makes me look like I have a good face for radio.

Pete Doherty

I think Julian Casablancas and Amy Winehouse are two contemporaries I envy.

Pete Doherty

I've lived in Liverpool, London, Belfast, Germany, Coventry, Dorset, and Cyprus.

Pete Doherty

'You Talk' was originally a copy of a certain Velvet Underground song.

Pete Doherty

At school, I was always the new boy, so I always went in for the school play. It was a way of breaking the ice and making friends with pupils and teachers for however long I had before moving on.

Pete Doherty

It's never going to be hipster because you've got that smell that the sea gives out twice a day. That's why Margate will never be gentrified. However, there is art-led regeneration.

Pete Doherty

I quite like 50 Cent.

Pete Doherty

When I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

Pete Doherty

In my own sweet way, I'm quite a superficial person.

Pete Doherty

When I was 16, walking down Oxford Street, I saw Ian Brown. I said, 'Are you Ian Brown?' He said no and walked off, but I am sure it was him.

Pete Doherty