Quotes from Pete Doherty

The only way I see myself in a serious relationship is if I am toning it down a bit.

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.

I love her but I wouldn't marry her if she [Kate Moss] was the last woman on earth.

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.

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.

Noel Gallagher is a poet, and Liam is a town crier.

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. Right down to their hand gestures.

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.

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.

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.

Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.

I like touring. It's like a school trip.

I've never actually learnt scales. I should someday.

Music and fashion and art - they were the things we were willing to die for. 'Is my hair all right? Have you heard this tune?' They're the things that saved us. They're the things that are saving kids on Nuneaton council estates. There's no other way out.

Babyshambles were offered some money to have a comeback. Good band, they were - amazing tunes.

The only thing that makes sense to me that I've learnt over the years is knocking tunes together.

It's never going to be hipster because you've got that smell that the sea gives out twice a day. That's why Margate will never be gentrified. However, there is art-led regeneration.

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.

My brother and I are not rivals. We are shipmates and best friends and the greatest songwriting partnership in the world.

That was my fantasy, actually - to become a billionaire, buy the 'Sun' and the 'Mirror,' and close them down.

I hate seeing myself misquoted.

The media circus got a bit twisted when I was in London. It became a bit of a joke, really. In Paris, they're so serious, I can take myself really seriously, too. I can get really morbid without people telling me to cheer up.

Humanity's always been weird at heart. Look at how societies form, rituals, practices, even rock n' roll. Humanity really is dark and twisted.

It's difficult talking about someone you love when you've split up with them, because it's painful to rake up all those old emotions again.