Frases de Pete Doherty

“Basicamente há uma grande diferença entre o verdadeiro e o falso. Eu não quero ser matemático sobre isso porque não sou bom a matemática. Mas é uma divisão entre um filme e um cartoon. Eu tenho sido apenas essa personagem do cartoon. Eu tento não seguir isso mas quando voce vê fotografias de si mesmo que contém frases postadas e mostrando coisas que voce não fez… está errado. É o meu pior pesadelo e ser mal-interpretado, também, especialmente quando eu sou uma pessoa tão cuidadosa com palavras.”

“Não vejo isso como sendo eu, é como uma criação da mídia. Eu chamo ele de gêmeo mau, esse cara que a mídia criou. Ele parece um pouco comigo, só que ele é imundo e sempre está com uma expressão esquisita ou fazendo algo violento ou ilegal. Eu gostaria de conhece-lo… na verdade não sei se gostaria. Talvez, brevemente. Você pode fazer com que eu o encontre?”

“Sim, acho que é uma questão de confiança. Com o novo album está tudo meio amadurecido e eu sou muito tímido. Quando você está drogado, fica ainda mais petrificante é simplesmente sair com apenas um violão. Quando você está nessa posição, é mais fácil se esconder por trás de um muro de barulho. Não estou lá agora… Drogas não me fazem compor músicas melhores. Você pode tentar pegar uma guitarra e entendê-la. Eu não sei, ninguém está no meu lugar. Você pode definitivamente adquirir força por passar por algo, mas muito do tempo, se você está num lugar escuro, a última coisa que quer fazer é compor. Você simplesmente está triste demais. Para mim, não estar compondo, criando, cria mais escuridão, então é como cair em espiral.”

“Eu diria que em cada 10 pessoas na rua, 8 não estão nem aí pra mim, mas tem aquelas duas. Mas não é por causa dela, as pessoas sempre quiseram me bater. Eles me chamam de viado. Eu ando por Hackney e alguém grita, “Bicha!” Eles nem sabem quem sou, mas acham que sou meio bicha por alguma razão. Não sou gay, e mesmo que fosse, meu amigo, alguém que grita ‘bicha!’ seria a última pessoa com quem eu iria. Futebol é onde realmente não me sinto seguro. Eu ando por Londres por meia noite e me sinto mais seguro que numa partida com 20,000 pessoas e polícia. No futebol todo mundo vai assim: “Vai se foder seu viciado de merda!”

“Informei a British Airways que ia chegar atrasado. Disse que era mais ou menos famoso e que talvez fosse ficar chateado no aeroporto. Eles são uns idiotas. Mesmo quando caí e machuquei o meu chapéu, não me apoiaram. Comecei a chorar e não queria que eles vissem. Um cínico dirá que eu perdi o avião, mas uma pessoa honesta sabe que eu só cheguei um bocadinho atrasado”

“É dificil, porque não quero soar como um esnobe. “Ah sim, sou um ícone de estilo. Olhe para mim.” Não, obrigado. Mas secretamente, sim, acho que posso ser. Ando pela rua e vejo gente usando chapéu com uma seringa no braço e penso “Eu reconheço esse visual.”

“What did I dream? Oh, what did I dream?
No one can keep me from my…
No one could keep me from my…
No fucker gonna keep me from my…
Oh, what did I dream?”

“The more you read and the more you teach yourself, the less you rely on something like drugs to take you to a better place.”

“"We've had death threats", Pete says, "saying, 'You're evil and your days are numbered." What was it, "Don't panic but be scared". Someone shat on our doorstep once and nailed a sparrow to our basement door. I don't mind, me. I'll out-weird any stalker.”

“Doff your cap and raise your glasses,
Make a toast to the boring classes
I'm burning your secrets to keep me warm.”

“After years of entrenched drug abuse, you have a mourning period. I know it’s a bit sad, but I’m in mourning. I’m in mourning for an armful.”

“No, because it's not like they're the only songs we have. They're like children; you shouldn't really have a favourite. Unless one of your kids develops into a pervert.”

“And if lust and depair
Are two bullets in the same gun
Well we've been playing Russian Roulette for far too long”

“I think I only needed something to hold on to. It has never been about depravity. It's always been about melody. But melody and I met in many depraved situations. Meeting melody is the victory of the empty spiralling nightmare.”

“They've been around me since day one, but so has corduroy. Know what I mean? Drugs don't create the sound - they might just change the pitch slightly. Or make you spell a word wrong.”

“She was getting pally with a scally in the alley
Giving head for gear
She called a spade a spade
Got slit from ear to ear
I showed no decorum
Spilled my heart out on the forum
Like a snapshot of the most tragic day
Carl is kept sedated, for the frontman elevated
While McGee does all he can to ruin my band and keep me out the way
In this industry of fools, musclemen and ghouls
If you're not a puppet or a muppet then you might as well call it a day
The truth gets so distorted
The wall scrapings get snorted
I'm welcome back if I give up crack
But you gave me my first pipe anyway”

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

“With Oasis stepping up a gear and proving they've still got it, they need to be shown there are people out there who can surpass them. Can we match them? The quality is good (in Oasis), but there really is no competition because my band is the greatest in the world and we're going to prove it.”

“There are fewer more distressing sights
than that of an Englishman in a baseball cap
Yeah, we'll die in the class we were born
That's a class of our own, my love”

“There's a slow train rumbling east of a place called Eden
Feeling wind-blown and proud as the trees upon the plain
And a stranger's voice talked to me of liberty and freedom
Yeah, it seems like he done gone wrong again
And he wears that hat like shame
Well he tasted the fruit of another
And when his Margie, when she discovered
Said she's gonna love him ten times more
Ain't nobody's business if she do”

“My idea of paradise is that period just before the sun rises and I’m at home painting or writing songs and everything is flowing. I pray that the sun won’t rise so I can paint and write for ever. That’s my ideal time.”

“We have played at venues up and down the country on this tour, some of which had no security, and have encountered no problems or witnessed any aggression. I simply asked the bouncer last night to apologise for his behaviour, three times in fact, and he refused. I was very upset at his attitude and although I'm very sorry for letting everyone down last night, I refuse to play at venues where pumped up, 16 stone men feel the need to be aggressively rude and to bully teenage kids around.”

“Oh promises, promises
I know you've heard them all before
Love is, love is, love is, love is, love is…

Oh well, it's just around the corner”

“If you're looking for a cheap sort
Glint with perspiration
There's a five mile queue
Outside the disused powerstation”

“I made this big statement saying, "I've left The Libertines." A couple of people said, "You can't do that! You're such a great band! What are you gonna do about Brixton?" And some people said, "Well, I'd rather be here than Brixton." There's no reason you can't do both. If I was 16 or 17 and Morrissey opened his front door to me and let me go and listen to him and chat to him it would be a joy. Why not? It's possible. I don't really have that much else going on in my life.”

“Mental-stability, I would say. I’d like to achieve a fluidity, where everything stays consistent – always doing shows, always with the chance to release records, meeting new people.”

“She said, "I'll show you a picture,
A picture of tomorrow,
There's nothing changing, it's all sorrow."

"Oh, no, please don't show me
I'm a swine, you don't wanna know me!"”

“I defy you all
To know twice as much as nothing at all
It's still nothing at all.”

“The red-faced president took afternoon tea
With her majesty The Queen
And they watched old films flicker
Across the old palace movie screen
Crying, "What a shame!"
As she slipped in the rain
Poor dancing girl
Well, she won't dance again…”

“Why should I wait until tomorrow?
I've already been
I've already seen
All the sorrow that's in store”

“I can't believe you've listed everything
I stole since we met
But I stole no kisses
Just some books
And the odd cigarette”

“And he's crossing the road,
He's picking up his Daily…Star”

“Until I was nine years old I thought 'cunt' was a term of endearment”

“I still do. It's changed a lot. It started off as something ancient and forgotten; and became something modern and real. I just couldn't swim. The tunnels get narrower and narrower.”

“There's a point you reach before you're perverted and tainted by all the things that drag you into the music business, like avarice or a lust for fame. The original reason why I started was some feeling of community, equality, wanting to fight for things you believe in. Any kid who's gone to a state school knows what it's all about - bullying, racism. And you've just got to make a stand.”