Amy Winehouse Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I can't be arsed with game players. I'm more 'I like you, do you like me? Let's go and do something about it.' I'm a very straightforward person like that.

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

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

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

I'm happiest with my family around me.

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

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.

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'm much healthier now.

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.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 would love to study guitar or trumpet.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I've never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

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

I'm not very ambitious at all.

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

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

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

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

I've had everything pierced at some point.

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

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've got a crush on my backing singer.

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

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

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

I'm not a natural born performer.

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.