Top 100 Amy Winehouse Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “What kind of fuckery is this?”

— Amy Winehouse

2. “I don’t care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that.”

— Amy Winehouse

3. “I love to live and I live to love.”

— Amy Winehouse

4. “If you don’t throw yourself into something, you’ll never know what you could have had.”

— Amy Winehouse

5. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

6. “They tried to make me go to rehab, I said ‘No, no, no,’”

— Amy Winehouse

7. “Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take...”

— Amy Winehouse

8. “I can’t help you if you won’t help yourself.”

— Amy Winehouse

9. “We only said goodbye with words. I died a hundred times, you go back to her and I go back to black...”

— Amy Winehouse

10. “I told you I was trouble, you know that I’m no good.”

— Amy Winehouse

11. “Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can’t control or change.”

— Amy Winehouse

12. “Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.”

— Amy Winehouse

13. “I’m romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.”

— Amy Winehouse

14. “I don’t ever wanna drink again, I just, ooh I just need a friend.”

— Amy Winehouse

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

— Amy Winehouse

16. “There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.”

— Amy Winehouse

17. “I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.”

— Amy Winehouse

18. “There is no point in saying anything but the truth because, at the end of the day, you don’t have to answer to anyone but yourself.”

— Amy Winehouse

19. “If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.”

— Amy Winehouse

20. “A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I’m not totally OK now but I don’t think any woman is.”

— Amy Winehouse

21. “I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.”

— Amy Winehouse

22. “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

23. “I’m not Amy the star, I’m Amy the girl with the guitar.”

— Amy Winehouse

24. “Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.”

— Amy Winehouse

25. “I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.”

— Amy Winehouse

26. “A song marks an occasion in my life and that’s how I live my life, by songs.”

— Amy Winehouse

27. “Yes, I’m still going to misbehave!”

— Amy Winehouse

28. “I wanted to be Snoopy’s girlfriend and when I got older I wanted to be Bart Simpson’s girlfriend. Then I couldn’t decide whether I wanted marry Snoopy or Michael Jackson – because he was God to me – or to just be them.”

— Amy Winehouse

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

— Amy Winehouse

30. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

31. “Cause there’s nothing, there’s nothing you can teach me That I can’t learn from Mr. Hathaway.”

— Amy Winehouse

32. “I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes.”

— Amy Winehouse

33. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

34. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

35. “I’m a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can’t.”

— Amy Winehouse

36. “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

37. “I knew I could sing but I always thought everyone could sing, that everyone was born with a singing voice. Even when I was getting interest from singing, I just thought ‘what about all these guys?’ Yes, I can sing, I have a good voice but there’s so many people that can and do.”

— Amy Winehouse

38. “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?”

— Amy Winehouse

39. “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

40. “I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.”

— Amy Winehouse

41. “I would say that jazz is my own language.”

— Amy Winehouse

42. “Christina Aguilera has her own style, so good on her. I don’t think anyone’s every told her to put on some leather chaps and get her noonie out. She’s an amazing singer but a lot of her music I can’t even hear.”

— Amy Winehouse

43. “I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.”

— Amy Winehouse

44. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

45. “I’m planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.”

— Amy Winehouse

46. “I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.”

— Amy Winehouse

47. “My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.”

— Amy Winehouse

48. “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

49. “Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.”

— Amy Winehouse

50. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse