musician
, writer, actor, poet and artist
. He is best known musically for being co-frontman of The Libertines
, which he reformed with Carl Barât
in 2010. His other musical project is indie band Babyshambles
. In 2005, Doherty became prominent in tabloids, the news media, and pop culture blogs because of his romantic relationship with model Kate Moss
and his frequently-publicised drug addictions.
Peter Doherty was born in Hexham
, Northumberland
, England, the son of Jacqueline (née Michels), who is of paternal Jewish Russian
descent and Peter John Doherty, who is of Irish
descent.
I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.
"We've had death threats", Pete says, "saying, 'You're evil and your days are numbered." What was it, "Don't panic but be scared". Someone shat on our doorstep once and nailed a sparrow to our basement door. I don't mind, me. I'll out-weird any stalker.
I can't buy her diamonds, my dick's too small. I never know where I stand with her. It's either a black eye or a love bite.
Nooooooah. No, that was a big joke in the family. When I was 16, 17, I started drifting away from everything else and picking up a guitar, and it was like, "What are you doing? You can't sing and you can't play a guitar", right up to the day we got signed by Rough Trade. And then it was like, "Go on play us a song", whereas before it was, "Shut up, fucking racket."
You've got to understand... these days I just can't afford to get involved [with the press]. People - they turn on you... on me. They write horrible things, deliberately twisting my words.
The more you read and the more you teach yourself, the less you rely on something like drugs to take you to a better place.