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.
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.
More Amy Winehouse Quotes
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At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna’s Immaculate Collection every day
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I’m a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can’t.
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Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
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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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Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
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Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.
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I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.
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I just dress like… I’m an old black man. Sorry! Like I’m an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it’s still the ’50s.
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We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black.
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I don’t care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that shit.
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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 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.
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And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.
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When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
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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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