Pete Doherty Quotes

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

There's always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn't be writing songs. Then there's always gonna be guys who move up the ranks writing. I don't know what's healthier or what's the best thing - probably whatever yields the best songs.

Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain't seen it yet, but I can mess around and get up in there. I've had Ruben Studdard up in my house, Brian McKnight, Tank. Every once in a while I throw down with them.

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

I'm fortunate enough to socialize with some of the greatest musicians around.

I would like to work with Drake. It would be cool.

I'd love to collaborate with Frank Ocean. He's one of my favorite artists of all time.

Working with Thug and working with Future feels the same. They don't sound like each other, but their creative process and their level of talent is the same. Anybody who knows both of them would agree.

I feel blessed that I got an opportunity to work with the likes of A. R. Rahman, Vishal-Shekhar among others.

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

I just felt like women love musicians, so I thought that we should become musicians. It'll help my dating life.

Salim-Sulaiman have always been my favourite. It's just an absolute pleasure working with them, and there's always something new you get to learn just by sitting in their studio and absorbing all that's happening around you.

I think I might have played a song on piano or guitar in a school talent show. I went to an all girls school, so there were always little things going on, but it wasn't really until I was 17 that I did a proper performance. My first big one was Glastonbury, before I was signed.

I want to be known for my music, and that takes time.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.

Musicians are hungry for new music.

The only way to have longevity is to have good songs.

I really want to work with Chris Martin. I think he's a genius.

We record in the spirit of the Berry Gordy camp and Gamble & Huff, where people were writing up to a dozen quality songs within a day because the competition was that hard.

I was Eazy's pen, because he couldn't write lyrics.