Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty
Peter Dohertyis an English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer, and artist. He is best known for being co-frontman of the Libertines, which he formed with Carl Barât in 1997. His other musical project is indie band Babyshambles. In 2005, he became prominent in tabloids, the news media, and pop culture blogs because of his romantic relationship with model Kate Moss and his frequently-publicised drug addictions...
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth12 March 1979
CityHexham, England
music way impossible
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.
falling-in-love men blue
I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.
music beautiful men
'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.
earth lasts moss
I love her, but I wouldn't marry her if she was the last woman on earth [on Kate Moss
music country passion
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.
people feelings emotion
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.
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I’m vain because I’m imperfect.
art reality film-history
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.
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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 ...
follow-me lost
The more that you follow me, the more I get lost
glasses broken glitter
Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?
feelings
You want to dance. You want to sing. Yeah, that feeling, of course, is beyond recollection really.
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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.
drug playing-music world
There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.