Amy Winehouse Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

What kind of fuckery is this?

There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.

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

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

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

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

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.

His face in my dreams,
seizing my guts,
he floods me with dread.
Soaked in soul,
he swims in my eyes
by the bed.
Pour myself over him,
moon spilling in
And I wake up alone.

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.

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.

Relationship doesn't remain, We resonate on different flames, I could cut you down again, If you were like all other men, If you were like all other men, I know that I could shut you down again

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.

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

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'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

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 only write about stuff that's happened to me.. stuff I can't get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.

I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it's not about being loud, it's about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.

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

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.

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

Sisters come before carpet burns and blisters.

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

I don't even have a TV.

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

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

At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day

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.

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.

I don't ever wanna drink again, I just, ooh I just need a friend

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

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

When I was a little kid it was my dream to go to drama school, but it was never something I thought would happen to me. I was a Jewish girl from North London and things like that don't happen to Jewish girls from North London called Amy Winehouse.

I just like tattoos.

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.

When will we get the chance to be just friends? It's never safe for us, not even in the evening, cuz I've been drinking. Not in the morning, when your shit works. It's always dangerous when everybody's sleeping, and I've been thinking ... Can we be alone?

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

I told Missy [Elliot] I couldn't believe how much she has done as a woman in a male-led arena and that she's an inspiration to me. When I got into the lift back to my room to get changed and go home, I broke down in tears.

I want at least five kids. I want twins.

You know I'm no good

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

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

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

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.

Feel so fucking angry; don't want to be reminded of you, But when I left my shit in your kitchen, I said goodbye to your bedroom it smelled of you

Basically, I live to do gigs.

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.

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

I've never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

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.

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

It's too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn't got white wine in it. Has it?

I would say that jazz is my own language.

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.

I can express myself.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

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

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.

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

I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up.' They came to me.

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.

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 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.

I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take ...

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 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.

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.

I don't regret anything.

I love to live and I live to love.

Cause there's nothing, there's nothing you can teach me
That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway.

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'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know.

The dark covers me and I cannot run now.

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

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.

We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black ...

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.

Women don't try to use me.

I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.

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

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

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

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

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

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

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.

Yes, I'm still going to misbehave!

There is no point in saying anything but the truth because, at the end of the day, you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself.