These are quotes about life from Amy Winehouse.
I’m a jazz singer
I’m a luck girl
I’ve always sung
I’ve always loved jazz
A problem is a problem and if I couldn’t sort it out myself
I wouldn’t talk about it
Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can’t control or change.
I don’t care about all that pop stuff and I couldn’t go to the Smash Hits poll winners’ party without bringing a gun.
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’m a musician. I’m not someone who’s trying to be diplomatic, you know, trying to get my 15 minutes. I’m just a musician who is honest.
I don’t ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I don’t mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal.. you have to pace yourself. You can’t take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. I’m not a one trick pony. I’m at least a five-trick pony.
I didn’t want to just wake up drinking and crying and listening to the Shangri-Las, and go to sleep, and wake up drinking and listening to the Shangri-Las. So I turned it into songs and that’s how I got through it.
I’m not religious at all. I think faith is something that gives you strength. 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. There are so many rude people around and they’re the people that don’t have any real friends. And relationships with people – with your mom, your nan, your dog… are what you get the most happiness in life from. Apart from shoes and bags.
I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mum and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.
If you don’t throw yourself into something, you’ll never know what you could have had.
As an artist the key things you have to do is prove yourself in a live scene, prove yourself in a writing scene, and prove yourself doing covers. They’re as important as each other.
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.
[In October 2010] I’m much healthier now. I used to use drugs and I haven’t used drugs in almost three years. It’s not a hard thing.
I only write about stuff that’s happened to me… stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I’m quite self-destructive.
I don’t suffer fools gladly. I’m not here to make friends. I’ve learnt that the hard way – I used to not say things like “I really want to hold a guitar in my video”, because I was trying to make everyone like me. But I don’t give a shit now. At the end of the day I’m there to do my job, I’m not there to have picnics.
The minute I even start to think about what I’m doing I just lose it. I have to just shut my eyes and flow.
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.
It’s not important to me to make other people at ease. I am difficult, but that’s because I don’t really give a fuck.
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.
Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
I did go to rehab but did not last long: I did for just 15 minutes. I went in and said, ‘Hello’ and explained that I drink because I’m in love and have f***** up the relationship. Then I walked out.
I’m a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can’t.
Life is short, do it, you know because life is short.
I’m not bothered about people hearing what I’ve got to say.
There’s no point in saying anything but the truth. Because, at the end of the day, I don’t have to answer to you, or my ex, or a man in a suit from the record company. I have to answer to myself.
I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes.
Oh I love this city! I love it. Wherever I go in the world, to land back in London is the best feeling. I get to see so many amazing places when I’m working, like Miami, and I think, I could live here. But then I go, yeah but it wouldn’t be in London.
I’m not afraid of appearing vulnerable.
