Pete Doherty

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1. 1979 age 0

   Born

2. 2015 age 36

   CreditAmy

• AKAlicia Keys1 title
• YBYasiin Bey1 title
• DGDave Grohl1 title
• MRMark Ronson1 title
• APAntonio Pinto1 title
• JLJay Leno1 title
• BWBobby Womack1 title
• RBRussell Brand1 title
• DLDavid Letterman1 title
• RIRihanna1 title

• Nooooooah. No, that was a big joke in the family. When I was 16, 17, I started drifting away from everything else and picking up a guitar, and it was like, "What are you doing? You can't sing and you can't play a guitar", right up to the day we got signed by Rough Trade. And then it was like, "Go on play us a song", whereas before it was, "Shut up, fucking racket."

  Pete Doherty, CC BY-SA 4.0

• ‘You can only be so thick-skinned. You can only pretend not to care for so long before you have to admit that you hate being made to look like an idiot. I hate seeing myself misquoted. I hate being linked romantically with girls I’ve been close to for years but never slept with. It’s just upsetting, isn’t it? My nan reads and believes these things. I say, “Hiya Nan, how are you getting on?” and she’ll say, “Are you all right? What about that cat you injected with crack?”’

  Pete Doherty, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Basically there’s a gulf between truth and untruth, I don’t want to be too mathematical about it, because I’m not very good at maths. But it’s a divide between, I dunno, a film and a cartoon. I’ve just become this cartoon character. I try not to follow it, but when you see pictures of yourself that have been photo-shopped to show you doing something you didn’t…. that’s wrong. It’s my worst nightmare – and being misquoted, too, especially as I’m so precious about words.

  Pete Doherty, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We have played at venues up and down the country on this tour, some of which had no security, and have encountered no problems or witnessed any aggression. I simply asked the bouncer last night to apologise for his behaviour, three times in fact, and he refused. I was very upset at his attitude and although I'm very sorry for letting everyone down last night, I refuse to play at venues where pumped up, 16 stone men feel the need to be aggressively rude and to bully teenage kids around.

  Pete Doherty, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I made this big statement saying, "I've left The Libertines." A couple of people said, "You can't do that! You're such a great band! What are you gonna do about Brixton?" And some people said, "Well, I'd rather be here than Brixton." There's no reason you can't do both. If I was 16 or 17 and Morrissey opened his front door to me and let me go and listen to him and chat to him it would be a joy. Why not? It's possible. I don't really have that much else going on in my life.

  Pete Doherty, CC BY-SA 4.0