Pete Doherty Quotes & Sayings

I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets. — Pete Doherty

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. — Pete Doherty

I love her, but I wouldn't marry her if she was the last woman on earth [on Kate Moss — Pete Doherty

Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it? — Pete Doherty

I'm vain because I'm imperfect. — Pete Doherty

I have a very bad relationship with the future. We don't get on. We just ignore each other. — Pete Doherty

There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music. — Pete Doherty

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. — Pete Doherty

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 ... — Pete Doherty

The world that surrounded me disgusted me so I chosen to invent one of my own. — Pete Doherty

I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies ... but it's a brutal world, man. — Pete Doherty

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. — Pete Doherty

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. — Pete Doherty

The more that you follow me, the more I get lost — Pete Doherty

'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. — Pete Doherty

If you've lost your faith in love and music then the end won't be long. — Pete Doherty

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. — Pete Doherty