And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.
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 need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.
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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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I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
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I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.
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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.
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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 read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.
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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 love to live and I live to love.
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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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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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Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.
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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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It’s important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.
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I 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.
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Music was my ultimate ambition but I liked all of it. I wanted to discipline myself in dance and acting too and I’d done all three since I was 9-years-old. I could sing, but I didn’t become a great singer.
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I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family.
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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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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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I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.
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I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.
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I’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.
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All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.
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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 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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