And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.
AMY WINEHOUSEAnd as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.
AMY WINEHOUSEWhen 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 WINEHOUSEWhen 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.
AMY WINEHOUSELife happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can’t control or change.
AMY WINEHOUSECause there’s nothing, there’s nothing you can teach me That I can’t learn from Mr. Hathaway.
AMY WINEHOUSEI 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.
AMY WINEHOUSEI’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.
AMY WINEHOUSEI 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.
AMY WINEHOUSEI wouldn’t be with a man who was scared of me, but I don’t think men are scared of me – look at me, I’m tiny. I don’t think I’m capable of putting anyone off. I’m a nice girl.
AMY WINEHOUSEIf you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.
AMY WINEHOUSEI’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.
AMY WINEHOUSEI 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.
AMY WINEHOUSEI 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.
AMY WINEHOUSEI didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.
AMY WINEHOUSEHere in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.
AMY WINEHOUSENo. 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.
AMY WINEHOUSE