Despite doing his best to avoid newspaper reporters at the moment, Pete Doherty has given an interview to the East London Advertiser, apparently after one of the paper's journalists slipped a note through his door asking him for one! In it he complains about the national press' obsession with his drug addiction, and also revealed he's thinking about writing a novel.
Doherty: "I'm not really doing any interviews at the moment. The nationals only care about the drugs. I'm part of celebrity culture, but I'm also part of a hospital waiting list, and to the people who are worried about me being a bad role model on young people - why do the media only focus on the drugs then?"
On the book plans: "Every day I think about it; writing and music thrive off each other, they goad each other along, they make something complete."