Best 79 quotes of Amy Winehouse on MyQuotes

A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.

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

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

Christina Aguilera has her own style, so good on her. I don't think anyone's every told her to put on some leather chaps and get her noonie out. She's an amazing singer but a lot of her music I can't even hear.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

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

I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?

I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

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

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

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 had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it's not about being loud, it's about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.

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 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 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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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 not a natural born performer.

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.

I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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'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've got a crush on my backing singer.

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've never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

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.

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.