The fact that I'm obviously well enough to be playing - in fine fettle and fine singing voice, yet I am not playing with The Libertines - is a sore point.

If you don't wash your hair, it cleans itself. That applies to the human body as well.

I've been thinking about my life, my loss of friends, relationships, opportunities, money, my values. There's also the loss of relationship with my son and my daughter, who I've only met once. All that loss - I just got so good at blocking it out.

I reached the point where I was getting arrested all the time in London. I couldn't walk down the street. London becomes a very small village, eventually. You run out of places. It was inescapable.

I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life.

This bloke in Rome once took his camera off and cracked me round the head with it, and I'm bleeding. He was a bit bigger than me, the Italian photographer, but I thought, 'I can't back down now,' so I sort of squared up to him. Luckily, my mate jumped round and bit him on the neck.

It's funny, but I always feel really safe on the streets of London. It's the most inspiring place to be in the world.

'Gunga Gin' is a true Libertines amalgamation, in the proper, old-fashioned sense of the word.

The rush that you get from having a good night's sleep is so exotic: to feel powerful and clean, capable and potent, as opposed to washed up, impotent and mute.

I'm a dreamer. That often helps me, no matter how crappy things become.

I quite like 50 Cent.

Being skint, drunk, paranoid - no, I don't wish that for myself.

In the early days of the Libertines, we used to put on Arcadian cabaret nights. There'd be some girl climbing out of an egg; we'd try and get a couple of mates to tell a few jokes, performance poets, and then we'd play in the middle of it all. More people were on stage than in the crowd.

My older sister, Amy Jo, and I - we are the first generation of my family to stay on at school and do any exams at all.

Drugs are a very selfish thing.

To meet my little girl for the first time was a humbling experience. She's got my eyes and a smile that just melts my heart.

I never went to school in England until I was 12.

I hate to say it - it breaks my heart - but we're a tacky, money-obsessed culture.

My sound is just vintage Vox AC30s and Marshalls... Matchless amps are cool as well.

I feel a lot better when I've got a bit of cash on me.

Babyshambles were offered some money to have a comeback. Good band, they were - amazing tunes.

I hate seeing myself misquoted.

Liverpool and London are two places I looked upon as home.

I'm not an activist. I'm a fantasist.

Humanity's always been weird at heart. Look at how societies form, rituals, practices, even rock n' roll. Humanity really is dark and twisted.

When I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

Amy Winehouse asked me a while ago if I had written any new songs. I played her something, and when I had finished, she looked at me and said, 'Is that it? Is that all you've got?'

When you split up with someone, someone that you're seriously in love with, it takes a lot of time before you even realise that you're upset. You know? It just hits you.

I'm a good man.

I've never actually learnt scales. I should someday.

There's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y'know what I mean?

Every day I wake up in Paris, it's real tranquillity. No pressure. I'm out of the grasp of people. I don't have a phone, and I drift a little bit.

I'm not really a fighter, but I've never backed down from anyone in Paris. I feel I can't. In London, I'll just run because I'm not going to fight 50 Wolverhampton Wanderers fans.

For any music aficionados out there, if you just play E to G, with a cool hairdo, you can't go wrong.

There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.

It's amazing, the number of people who don't have passports, who can't read, who can't write. It's sick actually. It's disgusting.

The media circus got a bit twisted when I was in London. It became a bit of a joke, really. In Paris, they're so serious, I can take myself really seriously, too. I can get really morbid without people telling me to cheer up.

'You Talk' was originally a copy of a certain Velvet Underground song.

When you see a photograph of a football crowd at a Saturday afternoon game in August 1963, you've got 40,000 men in trilbies. That's paradise, man.

For a little while, maybe I did fall for my own mythology.

He kind of makes me ill, David Cameron. I liked the old-fashioned Tory - like Winston Churchill, who had style. But Cameron's like a new breed - computer-generated. I hate it.

To get better, you have to get worse.

I'm blindingly optimistic. Ravingly optimistic.

In my own sweet way, I'm quite a superficial person.

I love life. I squeeze everything I can out of the day.

I'm not saying that maybe there isn't a kid out there whose behavior hasn't been influenced by me in some way. I'm sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you'd asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I'd admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that'd be a yes, totally. Right down to their hand gestures.

I could be anywhere. I just need my space to work.

I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways.

Me and my dad, we're both quite nostalgic people.

I love Paris.