Frases de Pete Doherty

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“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.”

“Has there ever been a musician of cultural significance who's been aware they're significant? Maybe it's a generation whose parents came from a working class environment and because they were rootless in a way, like me and him, they latched onto that as an identity. Maybe we romanticise what our parents wanted to escape from. We're, like, fantasising out a living.”

“I was so, so lost and unhappy. If you listen to the songs on the first album, you can hear it. They’re really sad songs and they come from a lonely place. The relationship broke up, and I went into free fall. I saw drugs as a way of avoiding…the darkness.”

“I got headbutted in Wolverhampton. You [Carl] get snogged in Northampton, head butted in Wolverhampton and I won't even tell you what happened in Southampton. Basically Carlos gets the love and I get all the head butts, it seems to be the way of things.”

“It's one and the same, one and the same
What's the use between death and glory?
Hard to choose between death and glory
Happy endings they never bored me
Happy endings, they still don't bore me
They have a way, a way to make you pay
And to make you toe the line
Now I'm severing the ties because
I'm so clever but clever ain't wise”

“Music when the lights go out
Love goes cold in shades of doubt
The strange face in my mind is all too clear
Music when the lights come on
The girl I thought I knew has gone
And with her my heart has disappeared”

“Basically there’s a gulf between truth and untruth, I don’t want to be too mathematical about it, because I’m not very good at maths. But it’s a divide between, I dunno, a film and a cartoon. I’ve just become this cartoon character. I try not to follow it, but when you see pictures of yourself that have been photo-shopped to show you doing something you didn’t…. that’s wrong. It’s my worst nightmare – and being misquoted, too, especially as I’m so precious about words.”

“I’ve got a fierce passion for politics but I can’t stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I’m up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.”

“New York City's very pretty in the night-time
But oh, don't you miss Soho?”

“I knew I was destined for London, so I came to live with my nan in her council flat. It was the summer after my A-levels. Got a job in Willesden cemetery. I was getting a man’s wage, filling in graves. Stood around while they did the last rites. Cut the grass. A lot of the time I’d just sit on the gravestones and read and write. Scribbling away.”

“The Thames and the Mersey, the Tyne and the Wear and the Clyde
They spew slums like gravy on the banks of the poisonous tide
They washed up a pale thin girl
Alone in her ivory tower
Scratching her skin with the thorns that grow
On the stems of the wild flowers
What became of the love we knew?
We beat the swine black and blue
You and I
Me and you
What became of the love we knew?
What became of the working class?
Nike, Reebok, Adidas
Scratchcards, pitbulls, ecstasy
Hooray for the 21st Century”

“When she wakes up in the morning
She writes down all her dreams
Reads like the Book of Revelations
Or the Beano or the unabridged Ulysses
Oh, I really wanna know
So tell me, Where does all the money go?
Where does all the money go?
Straight, straight up her nose”

“Well, I'll tell you a story but you won't listen
It's about a nightmare steeped in tradition
It's the story of a coked-up pansy
Who spends his nights in flights of fancy

Met two fellas over gin and mixers
They talked for a while, he soon got the picture
One was a souped up Soho mincer
And the other was a pikey with a knowledge of scripture”

“I’m vain because I’m imperfect.”

“The story of The Libertines starts for me when it was me, Carl Barât and Steve Bedlow sat on the side of a canal, throwing stones at a bottle and we had a game where whoever hit the bottle first with the stone got to choose the name of the band - I can't even remember who it was that hit the bottle but, yeah, from that night onwards we became The Libertines. We ended up throwing ourselves into eternity, as we called it at the time”

“I think it's woken me up to a few things, and you do become complacent. As well as being anti something, you've got to be pro something. So you're anti racism, so what are you pro? You're pro community. I would put my hand on my heart and I'd attach myself to socialist ideas. Because I believe in society. And it's bollocks that black people have any less worth in society than white people, which is basically what people like the BNP say.”

“Her old man, he don't like blacks or queers
Yet he's proud we beat the Nazis
How queer…”

“I realise it’s proved to people that I don’t love them. It’s dawning on me now that if I say I love someone… it’s like lying, really. As long as I’m taking it, the lie continues. I’ve got a lot of proving myself to do.”

“I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life. You don't need to control your drug intake to lead a free life. Whether you take no drugs at all or everything you can get your hands on, a free life is separated from that.”

“That’s right, but I’m not sure it’s my place to talk about drugs. I’d rather take them or not take them - but not talk about them.”

“Something good has happened to us. We are, dare I say it, a professional unit these days. When people get us in a room together now, they actually treat us like musicians. Before, they would treat us as anything but: pigeon fanciers, candles, dry humpers…”

“I'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.”

“Don't let the tide of your sorrow
Drown your nights and flood your days”

“You should get some sun on your face
We've been sitting like a lord in the bath for days
It's getting like I don't even know you”

“Now I can deal with all the blood on my shoes,
The holes in my sole,
My spirit is tainted and,
Oh, all my tears are painted”

“Each man kills the things he loves.”