The Best Amy Winehouse quotes

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl. — Amy Winehouse

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl. — Amy Winehouse

I’m not Amy the star, I’m Amy the girl with the guitar. — Amy Winehouse

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

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. — Amy Winehouse

I’m not a girl trying to be a star or trying to be anything other than a musician, i don’t think I’m gonna be at all famous. — Amy Winehouse

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

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. — Amy Winehouse

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. — Amy Winehouse

Women don’t try to use me. — Amy Winehouse

I’m a young woman and I’m going to write about what I know. — Amy Winehouse

I don’t care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that shit. — Amy Winehouse

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. — Amy Winehouse

A song marks an occasion in my life and that’s how I live my life, by songs. — Amy Winehouse

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

I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there’s rarely a man involved which is kind of weird. — Amy Winehouse

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life. — Amy Winehouse

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. — Amy Winehouse

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. — Amy Winehouse

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can’t control or change. — Amy Winehouse

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones. — Amy Winehouse

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about. — Amy Winehouse

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

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

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

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 Winehouse

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I’ll never be bored of it. — Amy Winehouse

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. — Amy Winehouse

I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I’m quite self–destructive. — Amy Winehouse

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. — Amy Winehouse

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn’t that spectacular. — Amy Winehouse

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. — Amy Winehouse

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. — Amy Winehouse