Amy Winehouse Quotes

I’m very loyal.

I’m not a natural born performer.

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

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

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 love food.

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

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.

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

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

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

I look after people.

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

I don’t regret anything.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Yeah, I’m an open book.

I want at least five kids. I want twins.

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.

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.

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

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

I’m such a kid at heart.

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 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 not very ambitious at all.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

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

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

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

Yes, I’m still going to misbehave!

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.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

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.

Women don’t try to use me.

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

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.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

I don’t even have a TV.

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

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.

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.

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.

I just like tattoos.

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

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

I’ve had everything pierced at some point.

I can be a cruel person.

I can express myself.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

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