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 WINEHOUSEI’ve had everything pierced at some point.
More Amy Winehouse Quotes
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I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.
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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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If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
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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 listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
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I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.
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I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.
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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.
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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’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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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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Christina Aguilera has her own style, so good on her. I don’t think anyone’s every told her to put on some leather chaps and get her noonie out. She’s an amazing singer but a lot of her music I can’t even hear.
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I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn’t that spectacular.
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And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.
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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 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.
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I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who wasn’t satisfied with just one level of musicianship as someone who was a pioneer.
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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.
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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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I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.
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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 can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
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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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There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.
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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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