Quotes from 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.

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

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

Yeah, I'm an open book.

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.

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've got a crush on my backing singer.

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

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

Yes, I'm still going to misbehave!

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

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.

I'm such a kid at heart.

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

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.

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 want at least five kids. I want twins.

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

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.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

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 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.

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