Amy Winehouse Quotes

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings.

It's not okay for me to behave as if I'm cynical about the future. Even if I am.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

I'm too cynical to be an optimist.

I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

No one wants to follow a pessimist... You can be skeptical, you can be realistic, but you can't be cynical. If your boss is Eeyore, do you want to work with someone like that? Oh, bother.

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.

I am not Pollyannaish about the depths of the challenges we face.

If I'm honest about the people that I love, then I need my characters to live through the same things that the people I love and care about are living with and struggling with.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's a little bit like me.

I'm a role player, a journeyman. I know who I am.

I think I always wanna write comedy because that's what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know it, so that's what I want to reproduce.

I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.

Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision