Quotes from Pete Doherty

I was always very softly spoken and kinda looked after myself.

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

For a little while, maybe I did fall for my own mythology.

I love life. I squeeze everything I can out of the day.

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?'

Me and my dad, we're both quite nostalgic people.

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.

It's funny, but I always feel really safe on the streets of London. It's the most inspiring place to be in the world.

Maybe I'm actually an optimist.

I'm blindingly optimistic. Ravingly optimistic.

'You Talk' was originally a copy of a certain Velvet Underground song.

I'm not an activist. I'm a fantasist.

I used to write songs to get love, but now that I have it, I don't feel the need to anymore.

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.

My sound is just vintage Vox AC30s and Marshalls... Matchless amps are cool as well.

I don't know; we'll see what happens with Brexit. If they make it so that you can't travel any more without a visa, I'm going to have to leave the country, stay in the E.U., and probably change my citizenship.

Liverpool and London are two places I looked upon as home.

It was always my ambition to be on the cover of a free gay magazine.