Pete Doherty Quotes

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Pete Doherty

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 12, 1979

Maybe I'm actually an optimist.

Pete Doherty

Drugs are a very selfish thing.

Pete Doherty

The only thing that makes sense to me that I've learnt over the years is knocking tunes together.

Pete Doherty

The fact that I'm obviously well enough to be playing - in fine fettle and fine singing voice, yet I am not playing with The Libertines - is a sore point.

Pete Doherty

Liverpool and London are two places I looked upon as home.

Pete Doherty

I reached the point where I was getting arrested all the time in London. I couldn't walk down the street. London becomes a very small village, eventually. You run out of places. It was inescapable.

Pete Doherty

Every day I wake up in Paris, it's real tranquillity. No pressure. I'm out of the grasp of people. I don't have a phone, and I drift a little bit.

Pete Doherty

I hate to say it - it breaks my heart - but we're a tacky, money-obsessed culture.

Pete Doherty

That was my fantasy, actually - to become a billionaire, buy the 'Sun' and the 'Mirror,' and close them down.

Pete Doherty

If you don't wash your hair, it cleans itself. That applies to the human body as well.

Pete Doherty

I like touring. It's like a school trip.

Pete Doherty

I'd never say I wouldn't fight a war. In different ages, I would have done. I'd have fought the Vikings.

Pete Doherty

I've always enjoyed acting, and there's more than a degree of it involved in singing live on stage.

Pete Doherty

I've turned my back on fancy parties and red carpets. I'm a writer, and if I did that, I'd never get anything done.

Pete Doherty