Quotes from Amy Winehouse

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

I'm happiest with my family around me.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I just like tattoos.

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.

A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.

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.

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

I can express myself.

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

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.

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

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.

Basically, I live to do gigs.