Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
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.
I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.
There's no point in saying anything but the truth.
Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.
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.
Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.
Yes, I'm still going to misbehave!
When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.
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.
If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.
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 not frightened of appearing vulnerable.
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.
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.
Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
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.
I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.
I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
I would say that jazz is my own language.
My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same.
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.
If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.
I'm not a natural born performer.
Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.
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.
I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.
I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.
I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.
I'm of the school of thought where, if you can't sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.
I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.
I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.
I just like tattoos.
I've always been a little homemaker.
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.
I'm such a kid at heart.
I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.
I'm happiest with my family around me.
I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.
I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.
Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.
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.
If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
I love food.
I don't regret anything.
