Pete Doherty: I don’t want to inflict myself on a girl at the moment

Pete Doherty has said he’s happy being single - because it’s helping him get his head together.

The Babyshambles singer, who turns 30 today, dated Kate Moss off-and-on for nearly three years and then was involved with model Irina Lazareanu - but now says he’s single and happy with it.

He told the Sun: “I just don’t want to inflict myself on any girl.

“I wouldn’t want her to have anything to do with me or the people I know or my life as it is at the moment. They just don’t need it, you know?”

The musician has spent the last five years in and out of prison and rehab because of his ongoing drug problems but he insists he’s doing better of late: “I’m off that kind of stuff, yeah.

“I’ve come into my own head a little bit really, being a bit more honest and open, rather than hiding in a crack pipe or wherever and just not turning up most of the time.”

He added that he’s also gained a new perspective on his life recently: “I keep reading about people, about unfulfilled potential, that’s a killer that. [People] will be able to name ten things about me or to do with me or someone I’ve been with before they’ll ever be able to name a song. And that really is quite sad.”

“It’s like Trotters Independent Traders [from Only Fools and Horses]. For years they got by on three wheels and a lot of the fun was in the dream and scheme and the scrapes and near misses.

“But really and truly all Del ever wanted was actually to achieve something secretly, you know?”