Amy Winehouse's Quotes

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

I'm much healthier now.

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'm not a natural born performer.

I'm not an idiot.

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

I'm not very ambitious at all.

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

I'm such a kid at heart.

I'm ugly.

I'm very loyal.

I've always been a little homemaker.

I've got a crush on my backing singer.

I've had everything pierced at some point.

I've never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Women don't try to use me.

Yeah, I'm an open book.

Yes, I'm still going to misbehave!

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 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 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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I just like tattoos.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Basically, I live to do gigs.