Amy Winehouse Quotations

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

There's no point in saying anything but the truth.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.

Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.

You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same.

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

I like pin-up girls. I'm more of a boy than a girl. I'm not a lesbian, though - not before a sambuca anyway.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

I'm of the school of thought where, if you can't sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

I've got a crush on my backing singer.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

I love America, it's a much more permissive place.

I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

I've never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

I want at least five kids. I want twins.

I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not.

A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.

Christina Aguilera has her own style, so good on her. I don't think anyone's every told her to put on some leather chaps and get her noonie out. She's an amazing singer but a lot of her music I can't even hear.

I wouldn't be with a man who was scared of me, but I don't think men are scared of me - look at me, I'm tiny. I don't think I'm capable of putting anyone off. I'm a nice girl.

I'm not Amy the star, I'm Amy the girl with the guitar.

I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

It's important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.

People think stage school is a little star factory but the truth is kids like me learned about being in a team situation and going out to work earlier than a lot of kids did. I don't know anyone from drama school who's now sitting on their arse doing nothing.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Music was my ultimate ambition but I liked all of it. I wanted to discipline myself in dance and acting too and I'd done all three since I was 9-years-old. I could sing, but I didn't become a great singer.

My dad always had music playing around us and he was always a happy chirpy man with a beautiful voice. I was always singing around the house and I assumed that's what all families did. It wasn't until I went through that nasty teenage stage that I started to realise that wasn't the case.

I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace.

I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.

I've never been an idiot - I was a smart girl but I'd do stupid things like go around Asda and nick stuff because my friends told me to. I was a good girl as a teenager.

I wanted to be Snoopy's girlfriend and when I got older I wanted to be Bart Simpson's girlfriend. Then I couldn't decide whether I wanted marry Snoopy or Michael Jackson - because he was God to me - or to just be them.

I like stylish men although I'm someone who sees a man who's not dressed right and think what I could do with him to make him cute. I'm a typical Jewish woman like that.

The more people see of me, the more they'll realize that all I'm good for is MAKING MUSIC.

The dark covers me and I cannot run now.

I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.

I've had everything pierced at some point.

A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.

I'm a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can't.

I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes

People say my content's mature, I don't think it's mature at all. I'm just a normal 20 year old. I'm opinionated.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

They tried to make me go to rehab, I said 'No, no, no,'

I knew I could sing but I always thought everyone could sing, that everyone was born with a singing voice. Even when I was getting interest from singing, I just thought 'what about all these guys?' Yes, I can sing, I have a good voice but there's so many people that can and do.

No. No. I don't listen to anyone except my ... inner child anyway. If someone had said to me, Amy, lose a stone which they wouldn't - I don't think I would have listened anyway.

Mr False Pretence, you don't make sense I just don't know you But you make me cry, where's my kiss goodbye I think I love you

I'm not very ambitious at all.

Yes, I'm still going to misbehave!

I'm not a natural born performer.

I'm much healthier now.

I'm happiest with my family around me.

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown. He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down.

You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.

I can't help you if you won't help yourself.

Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.

I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.