More from the surely-a-film-is-in-the-making-here life of sometime Libertine Pete Doherty. The Sunday Mirror yesterday published an interview with the singer in which he spoke about his drug addiction and (so far unsuccessful) attempts at rehab.
On why past rehab hasn't worked he said: "I've got to start getting clean straight away. But I can't do it in the Priory or places like that. I have to do it in the environment I live in because I am always going to be surrounded by drugs when I'm making music. I've just got to find the inner strength to control it."
On his unsuccessful attempt to undergo rehab at Thailand's Thamkrabok Monastery: "I'd only come out of the Priory a couple of days earlier so I'd been through all the shakes, vomiting and (sleepless) nights with cold turkey. Foolishly I didn't do any research about Thailand before I went, and it was hardcore."
On his time in Bangkok after quitting Thai rehab: "I booked into a hotel where they offered room service of heroin with my bacon and eggs. I told them I didn't have any money but they said I could have it on tab. I notched up a £280 bill in three days. If I'd done the same amount of brown in England it would have cost me thousands."
On his immediate aims: "There are three things that I know a bit about in my life and that's QPR, my guitar and drugs. I know QPR are the best football team in the world, my guitar is the most beautiful thing I own and that I don't take enough drugs to kill me. It isn't drugs that I need to get rid of; it's the demons that fill my head. Once I have come to terms with my demons, maybe I'll be able to get clean."
The Libertines - minus Pete - will be back on stage at T in the Park this weekend.