Zitat des Tages von Amy Winehouse:
Yeah, I'm an open book.
I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.
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.
The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.
I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
I'm happiest with my family around me.
Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
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'm of the school of thought where, if you can't sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.
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.
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.
I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.
Basically, I live to do gigs.
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 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 always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.
I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.
I've always been a little homemaker.
If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.
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.
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.
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 was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.
I would love to study guitar or trumpet.
Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.
I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.
I'm much healthier now.
When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me.
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
I'm not very ambitious at all.
I've never been a boyfriend kind of girl.