Amy Winehouse quotes:

I wanted to be Snoopy's girlfriend and when I got older I wanted to be Bart Simpson's girlfriend. Then I couldn't decide whether I wanted marry Snoopy or Michael Jackson - because he was God to me - or to just be them.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

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.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

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.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

There's no point in saying anything but the truth.

Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.

A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

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.

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.

I've never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me.

I've had everything pierced at some point.

My dad always had music playing around us and he was always a happy chirpy man with a beautiful voice. I was always singing around the house and I assumed that's what all families did. It wasn't until I went through that nasty teenage stage that I started to realise that wasn't the case.

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.

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

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. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

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."

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

I've got a crush on my backing singer.

I love food.

I don't ever wanna drink again, I just, ooh I just need a friend

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

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.

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.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

No. 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.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who wasn't satisfied with just one level of musicianship ... as someone who was a pioneer.

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.

I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.

I like pin-up girls. I'm more of a boy than a girl. I'm not a lesbian, though - not before a sambuca anyway.

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

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.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

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.

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

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.

I've never been an idiot - I was a smart girl but I'd do stupid things like go around Asda and nick stuff because my friends told me to. I was a good girl as a teenager.

I love America, it's a much more permissive place.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

Yeah, I'm an open book.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

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.

You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.

Yes, I'm still going to misbehave!

I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I've always been a little homemaker.

I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

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.

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.

Cause there's nothing, there's nothing you can teach me That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway.

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.

I don't care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

I told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no good.

I told Missy [Elliot] I couldn't believe how much she has done as a woman in a male-led arena and that she's an inspiration to me. When I got into the lift back to my room to get changed and go home, I broke down in tears.

I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.

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.

I'm a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can't.

I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes

There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

I 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.

I'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.

Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.

Sisters come before carpet burns and blisters.

I'm happiest with my family around me.

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.

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.

We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black...

The more people see of me, the more they'll realize that all I'm good for is MAKING MUSIC.

I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

I'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know.

Mr False Pretence, you don't make sense I just don't know you But you make me cry, where's my kiss goodbye I think I love you

I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.

I donâ??t need help because if I canâ??t help myself I canâ??t be helped.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.

I can't help you if you won't help yourself.

My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same.

I'm not a natural born performer.

I love to live and I live to love.

I'm much healthier now.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

The dark covers me and I cannot run now.

I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.

People say my content's mature, I don't think it's mature at all. I'm just a normal 20 year old. I'm opinionated.

They tried to make me go to rehab, I said 'No, no, no,'

I knew I could sing but I always thought everyone could sing, that everyone was born with a singing voice. Even when I was getting interest from singing, I just thought 'what about all these guys?' Yes, I can sing, I have a good voice but there's so many people that can and do.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take...

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day

I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.

I'm not very ambitious at all.

If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.

People think stage school is a little star factory but the truth is kids like me learned about being in a team situation and going out to work earlier than a lot of kids did. I don't know anyone from drama school who's now sitting on their arse doing nothing.