Pete Doherty Quotes

The more that you follow me, the more I get lost

You want to dance. You want to sing. Yeah, that feeling, of course, is beyond recollection really.

I’m not saying that maybe there isn’t a kid out there whose behavior hasn’t been influenced by me in some way. I’m sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you’d asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I’d admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that’d be a yes, totally.

‘Each man kills the things he loves’. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I’ve had and wilfully destroyed.

I’m not a suicidal person at all, but on paper it seems that I am. I think I’m really quite horrible to myself in many ways. You always think it’s going to be fine, the body will repair itself. There will be another chance. But I’m 33 now. The body won’t keep repairing itself. You know when you can flick a coin and catch it on your elbow, and flick it up and catch it on the back of your head? And then you can’t even catch it with two hands any more. You realise something is wrong.

I’m not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I’m not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.

I’ve learnt that there’s nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I’m perceived or how I’m presented; it’s completely impossible.

Once you realize that what I’m saying is true and comes from the heart, then it’s easy. But if you see it all as a façade and just a presentation of affected emotion, then it’s not so easy, it’ll just confuse you.

I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies… but it’s a brutal world, man.

It’s just about bein’ yourself…even when you’re on the dole, it’s about your leather jacket. Music is the last refuge of the working class, along with football…in fact, gigs and riots are the only things left.

I don’t really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn’t always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.

I don’t really know what intellectual means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that intellectual is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.