Amy Winehouse Quotes

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

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

I'm not a natural born performer.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes

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

Basically, I live to do gigs.

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

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 would say that jazz is my own language.

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

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 don't care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that shit.

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

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 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 wanted to be Snoopy's girlfriend and when I got older I wanted to be Bart Simpson's girlfriend. Then I couldn't decide whether I wanted marry Snoopy or Michael Jackson - because he was God to me - or to just be them.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class 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 planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.

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 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.

I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason, but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.

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

I've got a crush on my backing singer.

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

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

I'd like to be remembered as someone who wasn't satisfied with just one level of musicianship ... as someone who was a pioneer.

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.

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.

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'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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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