Amy Winehouse Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Sisters come before carpet burns and blisters.

I'm happiest with my family around me.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

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.

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

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

I've had everything pierced at some point.

I've never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

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

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