Amy Winehouse Quotes

I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

'Crush' is probably the most honest project I've ever written. It's my voice.

It's truthful - every single song is an extension of me and a truthful piece of inspiration from my past or something I'm currently going through.

I clearly remember writing songs [when I was young] and the power that it gave me of feeling like somebody. My whole life changed when I wrote those songs, even before anyone ever heard them. It wasn't a commercial thing.

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the point where a friend can say, "It's very you," and that made me feel good.

Before I wasn't sure what I wanted to say, but now, I have had so many different experiences that they have given me what I want to get across in my music.

My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

My work is has always been very, very personal.

I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

My music is an extension of who I am and what I went through and what I know musically.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.

Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.

Writing gave me a life.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get a little more into my life, and I can mesh my singing with things I love to do and writing for others and telling my story in hopes of helping someone. I'm all for it.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in the first place.

All of my songs are autobiographical.