Amy Winehouse Quotes

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

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.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

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.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

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.

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

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.

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

I told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no good.

There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.

The dark covers me and I cannot run now.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

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

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

I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.

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.

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

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 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?

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

A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.

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

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

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

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

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

I love to live and I live to love.

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

Yes, I'm still going to misbehave!

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.

Sisters come before carpet burns and blisters.

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'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 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'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

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 ever wanna drink again, I just, ooh I just need a friend

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.