I have a very bad relationship with the future. We don't get on. We just ignore each other.
Pete DohertyThere's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, yโknow what I mean?
Pete DohertyI fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but itโs a brutal world, man.
Pete DohertyI'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.
Pete DohertyIt'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.
Pete DohertyI 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.
Pete Doherty