Amy Winehouse Quotes

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

Pushing yourself and digging into something new, that's what being a musician is all about.

When I am making music, I am growing at the same time, ain't I?

I try to make sure the projects that I choose are something that will teach me something new, either about myself or about my art.

I don't care about the image I have. What matters to me is that with every film, I am growing more and more as an actor, pushing and challenging myself.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of the mirror and being silly, then suddenly I started making songs.

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

I really think I've found me finally in the music. You know, I had put an album out before, 'Embrace Me,' and it's been seven years since that. So I was discovering who I was. And I still am discovering, but I think now I know a little bit more of who I am. So that's what's pushing me.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

I've been adjusting to what it means to be a songwriter, figuring out what I like about it and what I don't like about it and what it means to me as opposed to other people.

My most prized possession would have to be 'Trick It.' I did rap here and there with some songs before, but 'Trick It' was my first time challenging myself to write lyrics from beginning to end.

You tend to find the best in yourself as an artist when you're challenged.

I do music that makes me happy by challenging myself to go the extra mile and not do what everyone else is doing.

I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.

I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.