Pete Doherty Quotes

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Pete Doherty

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 12, 1979

I never went to school in England until I was 12.

Pete Doherty

When you see a photograph of a football crowd at a Saturday afternoon game in August 1963, you've got 40,000 men in trilbies. That's paradise, man.

Pete Doherty

Music and fashion and art - they were the things we were willing to die for. 'Is my hair all right? Have you heard this tune?' They're the things that saved us. They're the things that are saving kids on Nuneaton council estates. There's no other way out.

Pete Doherty

Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.

Pete Doherty

It's amazing, the number of people who don't have passports, who can't read, who can't write. It's sick actually. It's disgusting.

Pete Doherty

I'm not an activist. I'm a fantasist.

Pete Doherty

I don't know; we'll see what happens with Brexit. If they make it so that you can't travel any more without a visa, I'm going to have to leave the country, stay in the E.U., and probably change my citizenship.

Pete Doherty

It was always my ambition to be on the cover of a free gay magazine.

Pete Doherty

The only way I see myself in a serious relationship is if I am toning it down a bit.

Pete Doherty

I have a distinct memory of friends I had at school whose parents were, for want of a better word, bohemian. That was the kind of England that I thought I should have belonged to.

Pete Doherty

My family used to say, point-blank, 'We'd support you if we thought you could sing, or we thought you could write songs, but you can't.'

Pete Doherty

The media circus got a bit twisted when I was in London. It became a bit of a joke, really. In Paris, they're so serious, I can take myself really seriously, too. I can get really morbid without people telling me to cheer up.

Pete Doherty

So many actors say, 'Oh, I can't bear to see myself on screen,' but it's not true. Everyone loves to see themselves from a good angle.

Pete Doherty

Money wasn't important to me. Once I discovered music, I was quite happy to live as a bum. As long as I had my music and my band, I was happy.

Pete Doherty

I'm always looking over my shoulder.

Pete Doherty

I have too many debts with the wrong people.

Pete Doherty

It's difficult talking about someone you love when you've split up with them, because it's painful to rake up all those old emotions again.

Pete Doherty

I'm always nervous before playing a gig, to tell you the truth. It's what nearly did me in when I was with the Libertines. I just couldn't handle it.

Pete Doherty

The Libertines is a lifelong trip with very dear friends that, for one reason or another, will never end.

Pete Doherty

When you're young and idealistic, you don't care: you'll play to no one, in your bedroom - like kids with football - you'll play anywhere; you just love the music. And then, bang - soon as you're in the industry, you think that's the dream. But that's when the dream starts to end.

Pete Doherty