Pete Doherty

I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life.

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 hate to say it - it breaks my heart - but we're a tacky, money-obsessed culture.

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.

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.

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

So many actors say, 'Oh, I can't bear to see myself on screen,' but it's not true. Everyone loves to see themselves from a good angle.

Gunga Gin' is a true Libertines amalgamation, in the proper, old-fashioned sense of the word.

I have a distinct memory of friends I had at school whose parents were, for want of a better word, bohemian. That was the kind of England that I thought I should have belonged to.

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.

I wish I had better contact with my family.

My family used to say, point-blank, 'We'd support you if we thought you could sing, or we thought you could write songs, but you can't.'