Pete Doherty Quotes

I love standup, but not the grind of traveling and dealing with club owners.

I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show.

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

I'm going to go out on tour when I feel like going on tour.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.

There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

There are definitely some nights where the show is over, and you're on the bus or a hotel room, and it's sort of a shock to go from being in the atmosphere of a club or a theater and be at your own show to being by yourself in a hotel room.

Opening for The Beatles in San Francisco at the Cow Palace was great. It was terrific fun to do. The tour itself, I must say, wasn't a whole lot of fun, artistically. It was just more kind of interesting.

We've played everywhere since I started The Licks. We've played arenas, clubs, school cafeterias and bowling alleys. It doesn't matter where the venue is; we're gonna bring you the rock!

I've been doing stand-up since I was 19. There have been times I've had to step away because of my schedule, but now I'm able to go out and do theaters and not smoky little bars.

Performing in Detroit or performing in Chicago, you're on your own turf, but when you tour a show, the audiences change. You're in a completely different space; sensibilities change. I think I learned a lot from doing that - how written material works in different places, learning to have confidence, learning the idea of how to be adaptable.

How many times do you get to play in Portland in front of how many thousands of people? That's the kind of environment we want to be in.

I just like to play and I'm always ready to be back onstage.

I did as much theater as I could. I worked at a theme park and a Bible theater and a community theater.

I have so many happy memories of Belfast and the shows I played there.

When I leave backstage, some of the fans ask if I'm a roadie, and I just tell them, 'No, I'm the bus driver.' And, of course, they believe it.

I don't care what stadium we play in.

In Europe we play big concerts, but in America it's so cool to see all the people - and all the girls.

We did 300 shows in our first two years.

Yeah, playing live for me is the essence of what we do.

We used to work with a promoter in Italy who used to book for shows with nine hour drives in between, so we got a new promoter.

Right before I moved out to San Francisco, I played in Buddy Guy's band.

I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.