LONDON, July 5 (UPI) -- British rocker Pete Doherty says he is serious about quitting drugs this time and is now focusing on his music.
The Babyshambles guitarist whose drug arrests have made headlines worldwide, said in a interview set to air on BBC One's "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross" he was now being tested twice weekly for crack cocaine and heroin.
"Being skint, drunk, paranoid, no, I don't wish that for myself," he said. "For the first time in my life I'm upping the stakes in my battle against it."
Drugs hurt his personal relationships as well as his music, he said.
"Being clean means I can sit down and rediscover writing," he said. "My song-writing suffered, being on drugs."
He said he still loves his former girlfriend, supermodel Kate Moss, but she "had enough" after a London tabloid photographed her allegedly using cocaine in a studio where he was recording.
She reportedly ended their relationship after she underwent a month of rehab at a U.S. drug treatment center.
"She's had enough, I think," he said. "I love her bones, I always will."
