I'm ugly.
— Amy Winehouse
I've always been a little homemaker.
I don't regret anything.
There's no point in saying anything but the truth.
Yeah, I'm an open book.
Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
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.
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 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 love food.
If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.
If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.
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 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.
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 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.
Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
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.
Women don't try to use me.
I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.
I just like tattoos.
Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.
I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.
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.
If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.
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 would say that jazz is my own language.
