Amy Winehouse
I told Missy [Elliot] I couldn't believe how much she has done as a woman in a male-led arena and that she's an inspiration to me. When I got into the lift back to my room to get changed and go home, I broke down in tears.Collection: Inspiration
When I was a little kid it was my dream to go to drama school, but it was never something I thought would happen to me. I was a Jewish girl from North London and things like that don't happen to Jewish girls from North London called Amy Winehouse.Collection: Girl
Relationship doesn’t remain, We resonate on different flames, I could cut you down again, If you were like all other men, If you were like all other men, I know that I could shut you down againCollection: Cutting
Sisters come before carpet burns and blisters.Collection: Blisters
It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it?Collection: Drinking
I like stylish men although I'm someone who sees a man who's not dressed right and think what I could do with him to make him cute. I'm a typical Jewish woman like that.Collection: Cute
Cause there's nothing, there's nothing you can teach me That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway.Collection: Causes
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.Collection: Song
I don't ever wanna drink again, I just, ooh I just need a friendCollection: Needs
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.Collection: Rose
You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.Collection: Queens
I can't help you if you won't help yourself.Collection: Helping
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.Collection: Karma
I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakesCollection: Mistake
There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.Collection: Song
We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black.Collection: Goodbye
I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.Collection: Writing
I can't be arsed with game players. I'm more 'I like you, do you like me? Let's go and do something about it.' I'm a very straightforward person like that.Collection: I Like You
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.Collection: Real
I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace.Collection: Listening
A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.Collection: Thinking