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.
AMY WINEHOUSEHaving 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.
More Amy Winehouse Quotes
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I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn’t that spectacular.
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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?
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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.
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Sisters come before carpet burns and blisters.
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I love to live and I live to love.
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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.
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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.
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And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.
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My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.
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Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
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I’m not a natural born performer.
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Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
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There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.
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If you don’t throw yourself into something, you’ll never know what you could have had.
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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
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