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

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

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'm a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can't.

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

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.

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