Quotes from Pete Doherty

No, I never surround myself with people I hate.

In my own sweet way, I'm quite a superficial person.

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

I wish I had better contact with my family.

I think Julian Casablancas and Amy Winehouse are two contemporaries I envy.

I hate to say it - it breaks my heart - but we're a tacky, money-obsessed culture.

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.

I have too many debts with the wrong people.

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.

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.

It's amazing, the number of people who don't have passports, who can't read, who can't write. It's sick actually. It's disgusting.

I have a distinct memory of friends I had at school whose parents were, for want of a better word, bohemian. That was the kind of England that I thought I should have belonged to.

You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting.

I just wanted to get on telly. I wasn't a massive Oasis fan, but I had to be in order to get on the telly.

I made the fatal mistake of trying to cut my own hair. It makes me look like I have a good face for radio.

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.

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.

I've lived in Liverpool, London, Belfast, Germany, Coventry, Dorset, and Cyprus.

I'm a good man.

For any music aficionados out there, if you just play E to G, with a cool hairdo, you can't go wrong.

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'm a dreamer. That often helps me, no matter how crappy things become.

I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways.