Top 100 Amy Winehouse Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

53. “Sisters come before carpet burns and blisters.”

— Amy Winehouse

54. “I’ve never been an idiot – I was a smart girl but I’d do stupid things like go around Asda and nick stuff because my friends told me to. I was a good girl as a teenager.”

— Amy Winehouse

55. “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

56. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

57. “I’m not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I’m not saying, ‘I’m sooo not famous,’ I’m trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.”

— Amy Winehouse

58. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

59. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

60. “I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.”

— Amy Winehouse

61. “I couldn’t resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown. He’s just not as tall, but I couldn’t tell, it was dark and I was lying down.”

— Amy Winehouse

62. “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

63. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

64. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

65. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

66. “People say my content’s mature, I don’t think it’s mature at all. I’m just a normal 20 year old. I’m opinionated.”

— Amy Winehouse

67. “Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.”

— Amy Winehouse

68. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

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

— Amy Winehouse

70. “Music was my ultimate ambition but I liked all of it. I wanted to discipline myself in dance and acting too and I’d done all three since I was 9-years-old. I could sing, but I didn’t become a great singer.”

— Amy Winehouse

71. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

72. “The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.”

— Amy Winehouse

73. “At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna’s Immaculate Collection every day.”

— Amy Winehouse

74. “If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.”

— Amy Winehouse

75. “Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.”

— Amy Winehouse

76. “I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.”

— Amy Winehouse

77. “I would love to study guitar or trumpet.”

— Amy Winehouse

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

— Amy Winehouse

79. “My dad always had music playing around us and he was always a happy chirpy man with a beautiful voice. I was always singing around the house and I assumed that’s what all families did. It wasn’t until I went through that nasty teenage stage that I started to realise that wasn’t the case.”

— Amy Winehouse

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

— Amy Winehouse

81. “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

82. “And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.”

— Amy Winehouse

83. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

84. “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

85. “Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.”

— Amy Winehouse

86. “When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.”

— Amy Winehouse

87. “I don’t think I knew what depression was. I knew I felt funny sometimes and I was different. I think it’s a musician thing. That’s why I write music. You know, I’m not like some messed up person. There is a lot of people that suffer depression that don’t have an outlet, you know what I mean? That can’t pick up a guitar for an hour and feel better.”

— Amy Winehouse

88. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

89. “I’m lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.”

— Amy Winehouse

90. “I’m happiest with my family around me.”

— Amy Winehouse

91. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

92. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

93. “I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.”

— Amy Winehouse

94. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

95. “The dark covers me and I cannot run now.”

— Amy Winehouse

96. “I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.”

— Amy Winehouse

97. “I’m not a natural born performer.”

— Amy Winehouse

98. “I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.”

— Amy Winehouse

99. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse

100. “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.”

— Amy Winehouse