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Drugs don’t work. They don’t even make you forget – only momentarily, because if something’s that painful, nothing’s going to make you forget it. You think they’ll fill the hole, but the hole just gets deeper… It’s like trying to fill in a hole without a spade.

— Pete Doherty

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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.

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Mental-stability, I would say. I’d like to achieve a fluidity, where everything stays consistent – always doing shows, always with the chance to release records, meeting new people.

“Yeah, well, I subscribe to the Umberto Eco view that Noel is a Poet and Liam is a town crier.”

I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.

Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?

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