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.
AMY WINEHOUSEMusic 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’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.
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Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.
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Relationship doesn’t remain, We resonate on different flames, I could cut you down again, If you were like all other men, If you were like all other men, I know that I could shut you down again
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I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.
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Cause there’s nothing, there’s nothing you can teach me That I can’t learn from Mr. Hathaway.
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I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.
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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 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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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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I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
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I can’t be arsed with game players. I’m more ‘I like you, do you like me? Let’s go and do something about it.’ I’m a very straightforward person like that.
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I would love to study guitar or trumpet.
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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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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 write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
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