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Pete Doherty Biography

Peter Daniell Doherty (born 12 March 1979) is 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 projects are indie band Babyshambles and Peter Doherty and the Puta Madres.

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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.

Art, Deal, Film History, Literature, Reality, Together

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

Compare, Drug, Music, Playing, Playing Music, World

When inspiration and emotions are sudden, and you can truly capture something, then, yeah, of course it feels good. But when you’re stunted, and you’re having trouble expressin’ yourself, then obviously it doesn’t. So it’s never constant.

Emotion, Feel Good, Inspiration, Sudden, Trouble

'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.

Beautiful, Guitars, Man, Men, Music, Things

I’m vain because I’m imperfect.

Imperfect, Vain

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.

Coin, Hands, Quite, Realise, Suicidal, Thinking

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

Dance, Feelings, Sing, Want, Yeah

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

Chosen, Disgusted, Surrounded, World

Mix your drinks, and it's best not to cry over spilt milk, but put it back in the bottle.

Back, Bottle, Bottles, Cry, Milk, Spilt

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.

People, Feelings, Emotion, Let, Emotions

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.

Football, Leather Jackets, Class, Bein, Gigs, Left

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

Follow Me, Lost, Follow

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

Blue, Bridges, Buses, Falling In Love, Men, World

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

Faith, Faith In Love, Long, Music

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.

Intellectual, Mean, Place, Quite, Things, Thinking

Open your heart. Don't be spiteful.

Heart, Open, Open Your Heart, Spiteful

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.

Admired, Behavior, Kids, Musician, People, Yes