“We can be more tolerant and we can all allow each other to be who we are… Peter would be wanting to push it more and explore more things, and I wouldn’t think it was safe, but in hindsight, it didn’t really matter.”
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“I spent six years going out onstage being purposefully miserable, thinking that’s what the audience wanted… I didn’t learn to smile onstage until I got chased round the stage by a wasp five years ago”
[After discussing the song he wrote for Get Him to the Greek] “The Libertines as individuals, none of us are very crass or sleazy… I suppose we take a bit more of a poetic approach. At the risk of sounding a bit fey”
“Everyone was very angry and upset and hurt and every other emotion… But it’s a lot of water under the bridge. Those things aren’t interesting to us any more”
“Peter was more of a poet, so he helped to teach me to use the language in a more colourful way… Down the line we kind of grew together.”
“It wasn’t so much about being in a band, it was about being in a gang… Living and breathing the romance that I’ve always had, and the dream that was in my head, and the shared dream that we cultivated together.”
“There’s no one else on the planet that could ever be what Peter is to me, and me to him – it’s just impossible”
Carl talks about going to Thailand to write what became Anthems For Doomed Youth with Peter. (Sorry about having to film off the TV, but i hope it’s comprehensible!)
Is there a man on planet Earth besides Carl Barât who could, or even would, deliver the line “Is there a new sonic pathway, as yet undiscovered?” and cause me to fall even more in love with him
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