Pete Doherty Quotes

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

You could say, 'Oh, we're gonna write the heaviest album of all time' or 'We're gonna write an album that sounds like 'Iowa.'' Even if we set out to try to do so, it would never compare. We're not those people anymore, we're not that band anymore.

The goal is never be a copycat of ourselves. It's more along the lines of taking risks in our music.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.

I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think anyone would like it.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

I've always taken it upon myself to be a pioneer or a leader, and create a different sound, not just go by what the radio is playing at the time.

I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

It's all about the balance. For musicians, me personally, you just can't keep doing covers or mash-ups. It would get old pretty fast.

If there's room to make a record every year, and it sounds nothing like the old one, I might do that. It's easy to get in and have fun. To me, if it feels right, that's all that needs to be done.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.