Amy Winehouse Quotes

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.

When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has to respect the melody.

I like bringing my poet brain and sensibility to lyrics I write.

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.