I made the fatal mistake of trying to cut my own hair. It makes me look like I have a good face for radio.
— Pete Doherty
I've always enjoyed acting, and there's more than a degree of it involved in singing live on stage.
I remember when I was about 15 and still listened to Pet Shop Boys and Chas And Dave, some lad at school lent me a Blur tape, and it had on it a song called 'Bank Holiday.' I said, 'What's this? I liked that tape, but that one song is a bit fast'. He said, 'Yeah, it's punk. It depends what mood you're in.' And then something sort of clicked in me.
If you don't wash your hair, it cleans itself. That applies to the human body as well.
I hate to say it - it breaks my heart - but we're a tacky, money-obsessed culture.
My older sister, Amy Jo, and I - we are the first generation of my family to stay on at school and do any exams at all.
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.
Maybe I'm actually an optimist.
I've been thinking about my life, my loss of friends, relationships, opportunities, money, my values. There's also the loss of relationship with my son and my daughter, who I've only met once. All that loss - I just got so good at blocking it out.
In a way, I'm always working with Mick Jones. I feel like he's watching over me all the time. We talk about everything: history quite a lot. Balloons and wars and old football players. The Clash.
My sound is just vintage Vox AC30s and Marshalls... Matchless amps are cool as well.
Anyone can feel amazing if you're with someone you love.
Being skint, drunk, paranoid - no, I don't wish that for myself.
I quite like 50 Cent.
My brother and I are not rivals. We are shipmates and best friends and the greatest songwriting partnership in the world.
To get better, you have to get worse.
The Libertines is a lifelong trip with very dear friends that, for one reason or another, will never end.
Amy Winehouse asked me a while ago if I had written any new songs. I played her something, and when I had finished, she looked at me and said, 'Is that it? Is that all you've got?'
At school, I was always the new boy, so I always went in for the school play. It was a way of breaking the ice and making friends with pupils and teachers for however long I had before moving on.
I'd never say I wouldn't fight a war. In different ages, I would have done. I'd have fought the Vikings.
That was my fantasy, actually - to become a billionaire, buy the 'Sun' and the 'Mirror,' and close them down.
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.
Liverpool and London are two places I looked upon as home.
The only thing that makes sense to me that I've learnt over the years is knocking tunes together.
I'm a dreamer. That often helps me, no matter how crappy things become.
I used to write songs to get love, but now that I have it, I don't feel the need to anymore.
No, I never surround myself with people I hate.
He kind of makes me ill, David Cameron. I liked the old-fashioned Tory - like Winston Churchill, who had style. But Cameron's like a new breed - computer-generated. I hate it.
When you split up with someone, someone that you're seriously in love with, it takes a lot of time before you even realise that you're upset. You know? It just hits you.
Humanity's always been weird at heart. Look at how societies form, rituals, practices, even rock n' roll. Humanity really is dark and twisted.
For any music aficionados out there, if you just play E to G, with a cool hairdo, you can't go wrong.
There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.
I'm a good man.
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.
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.
To meet my little girl for the first time was a humbling experience. She's got my eyes and a smile that just melts my heart.
I like touring. It's like a school trip.
It's not enough to play the old songs; that feels like being your own covers band or something. It's a big release to do new stuff.
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.
I've lived in Liverpool, London, Belfast, Germany, Coventry, Dorset, and Cyprus.
Drugs are a very selfish thing.
I wish I had better contact with my family.
I've never actually learnt scales. I should someday.
I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life.
I can't see why people call me a bad influence. I meet a lot of kids who are into music. I spend as much time as I can with them. I listen to their demos, and I'm encouraging.
If Oasis is the sound of a council estate singing its heart out, then the Libertines sounded like someone just putting something in the rubbish chute at the back of the estate, trying to work out what day it is.
'You Talk' was originally a copy of a certain Velvet Underground song.
I think Julian Casablancas and Amy Winehouse are two contemporaries I envy.
I knew I had I a better album than 'Up the Bracket' in me, and I wanted to record it. But I was told we've got to keep touring, keep promoting. That was the first time I realised we were on a conveyor belt.
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.
