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.
Pete Doherty
I'm always up for a riot, but now and again, you've gotta put your feet up and enjoy the sunset.
I think Julian Casablancas and Amy Winehouse are two contemporaries I envy.
You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting.
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.
Noel Gallagher is a poet, and Liam is a town crier.
If Oasis is the sound of a council estate singing its heart out, then the Libertines sounded like someone just putting something in the rubbish chute at the back of the estate, trying to work out what day it is.
I remember when I was about 15 and still listened to Pet Shop Boys and Chas And Dave, some lad at school lent me a Blur tape, and it had on it a song called 'Bank Holiday.' I said, 'What's this? I liked that tape, but that one song is a bit fast'. He said, 'Yeah, it's punk. It depends what mood you're in.' And then something sort of clicked in me.
My brother and I are not rivals. We are shipmates and best friends and the greatest songwriting partnership in the world.
I quite like 50 Cent.
Being skint, drunk, paranoid - no, I don't wish that for myself.
In the early days of the Libertines, we used to put on Arcadian cabaret nights. There'd be some girl climbing out of an egg; we'd try and get a couple of mates to tell a few jokes, performance poets, and then we'd play in the middle of it all. More people were on stage than in the crowd.
I made the fatal mistake of trying to cut my own hair. It makes me look like I have a good face for radio.
When I was 16, walking down Oxford Street, I saw Ian Brown. I said, 'Are you Ian Brown?' He said no and walked off, but I am sure it was him.
The Libertines is a lifelong trip with very dear friends that, for one reason or another, will never end.
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.
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.
Drugs are a very selfish thing.
If you don't wash your hair, it cleans itself. That applies to the human body as well.
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.
I've been thinking about my life, my loss of friends, relationships, opportunities, money, my values. There's also the loss of relationship with my son and my daughter, who I've only met once. All that loss - I just got so good at blocking it out.
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.
This bloke in Rome once took his camera off and cracked me round the head with it, and I'm bleeding. He was a bit bigger than me, the Italian photographer, but I thought, 'I can't back down now,' so I sort of squared up to him. Luckily, my mate jumped round and bit him on the neck.
'Gunga Gin' is a true Libertines amalgamation, in the proper, old-fashioned sense of the word.
I never went to school in England until I was 12.
The rush that you get from having a good night's sleep is so exotic: to feel powerful and clean, capable and potent, as opposed to washed up, impotent and mute.
I'm a dreamer. That often helps me, no matter how crappy things become.
The fact that I'm obviously well enough to be playing - in fine fettle and fine singing voice, yet I am not playing with The Libertines - is a sore point.
I hate to say it - it breaks my heart - but we're a tacky, money-obsessed culture.
My sound is just vintage Vox AC30s and Marshalls... Matchless amps are cool as well.
I feel a lot better when I've got a bit of cash on me.
Babyshambles were offered some money to have a comeback. Good band, they were - amazing tunes.
I hate seeing myself misquoted.
Liverpool and London are two places I looked upon as home.
I'm not an activist. I'm a fantasist.
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 funny, but I always feel really safe on the streets of London. It's the most inspiring place to be in the world.
When I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
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?'
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.
I'm a good man.
I've never actually learnt scales. I should someday.
There's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y'know what I mean?
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.
I'm not really a fighter, but I've never backed down from anyone in Paris. I feel I can't. In London, I'll just run because I'm not going to fight 50 Wolverhampton Wanderers fans.
For any music aficionados out there, if you just play E to G, with a cool hairdo, you can't go wrong.
There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.
It's amazing, the number of people who don't have passports, who can't read, who can't write. It's sick actually. It's disgusting.
I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life.
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.
