AMY WINEHOUSE

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.

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

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

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

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

There's no point in saying anything but the truth.

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

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.

Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.

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.

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.

My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same.

I'm such a kid at heart.

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.

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.

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 do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

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

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.

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.