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.
AMY WINEHOUSEThere are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.
More Amy Winehouse Quotes
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I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.
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My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.
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When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
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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.
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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.
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I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
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I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.
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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.
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If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.
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I would love to study guitar or trumpet.
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A song marks an occasion in my life and that’s how I live my life, by songs.
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Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
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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.
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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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Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
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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.
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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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I’m a young woman and I’m going to write about what I know.
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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.
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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.
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There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.
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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.
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The more people see of me, the more they’ll realize that all I’m good for is making tunes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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