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Amy Winehouse

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TAJ MAHAL My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boy...
BRIDGET MOYNAHAN There were no girlfriends, no boyfriends, no family ? it was like summer camp except with analogue e...
CHANTAL CLARET If Amy Winehouse was a beehive, then I guess I'm a blonde bob.
SIA I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice,...
DENIS LEARY Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or e...
VANESSA LACHEY My songs are always about overcoming things, whether it's breaking up with a guy or just trying ...
ESTELLE Some men are wearing the perfume ... but men are there to buy it for their wives, girlfriends, mothe...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's abo...
GENE LUEN YANG It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human be...
ZOOEY DESCHANEL I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've...
ALAN JACKSON For me, when you are talking about perfect songs, you're talking about Gershwin, 'Someone To...
MAURY YESTON It was always a dream of mine. When I was in high school I used to write poems for my friends. And t...
CYNTHIA VELENO It was always a dream of mine. When I was in high school I used to write poems for my friends. And t...
CYNTHIA VELENO It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desper...
ESAI MORALES I loved the Black Eyed Peas. I was obsessed with them, and they were my favorite group ever, and Amy...
ALESSIA CARA PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When...
RICK RUBIN I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks...
BRUNO MARS If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Ma...
MARTIN O'MALLEY Even if you're only wearing trainers and a vest, eyeliner will instantly transform you. People a...
BETH DITTO I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my ...
ELIZABETH OLSEN We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We...
AVRIL LAVIGNE Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and la...
SUSAN ORLEAN I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff f...
STEVE FORBERT I tried to sing 'What's Going On' with Amy Winehouse once at an old cinema in the West E...
JAMIE CULLUM I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
YOUNG JEEZY It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
KARL ROVE I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I...
PATTI SMITH When I heard 'Back to Black' from Amy Winehouse, I was, like, 'Wow.' To hear such a ...
ELLA HENDERSON Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of ...
MAYA ANGELOU I just loved Amy Winehouse. I would rather have managed her than anybody in the world. To me, it was...
JERRY HELLER Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
KRISTIN HERSH Any vehicle that conveys great songs and the ability to perform them, whether it's 'N Sync o...
TOMMY MOTTOLA Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about ...
BOB GELDOF To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or fri...
BRENDA SONG The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with som...
RUSSELL BRAND What kind of fuckery is this?
AMY WINEHOUSE There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might...
CHRIS YOUNG I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they...
TAYLOR LAUTNER Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not.
WATT KEY I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic...
BILL LASWELL I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't wa...
J. D. SOUTHER I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna plea...
KID ROCK What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, t...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their a...
CHRIS STAPLETON I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or...
DONALD MILLER Cole Archer's Chillout Mix. That's my son's mix. He's ten weeks old, and this is wha...
ADAM PALLY True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends&#...
LARRY MCMURTRY I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've e...
MALCOLM WILSON I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be ...
KAKI KING People know who I am or are fans of 'Chelsea Lately,' and that makes my shows more fun. Peop...
FORTUNE FEIMSTER We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are th...
RON POPE You need a bit more to be a pop star than just a good voice.
KIM WILDE I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in sch...
SANFORD I. WEILL I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whet...
HARRY STYLES I definitely grew up to Nina Simone and a lot of Ella Fitzgerald. And I loved Amy Winehouse. I loved...
GUGU MBATHA-RAW I love love songs, but sometimes it's okay to just be young and talk about something other than ...
MAREN MORRIS I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try ...
ADAM SCHLESINGER I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'...
SAM SMITH Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's...
AURORA I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fasc...
ED HARRIS I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's no...
CHRIS STAPLETON I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I'...
EMILIA FOX The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically...
SERJ TANKIAN I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permiss...
LANA DEL REY Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone ...
LADY GAGA Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing t...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown.

AMY WINEHOUSE It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as ...
EMILY ROBISON It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.
CARROT TOP You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following you...
KIESZA It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Wi...
JEFF BECK I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about ha...
DIERKS BENTLEY Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or fami...
DAVID IVES Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the sam...
TOM PETTY With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.
KATY PERRY I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but...
KATY PERRY I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what...
ADELE 'A Streetcar Named Desire' is one of the best, if not the best, modern American plays. It de...
BEN FOSTER I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could...
ED SHEERAN Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery o...
RUSSELL SMITH There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, ...
RALPH MACCHIO It's really hard when people write nasty things about you all the time. As much as good things a...
JORDIN SPARKS The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to w...
THEODORA GOSS I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think,...
GAYLE FORMAN Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a co...
TRACY CHAPMAN According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. Mo...
ALAFAIR BURKE 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it&...
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. ...
MACKLEMORE Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.
ASHTON KUTCHER People are going to have their opinions. Whether it's good or bad, I don't really think abou...
SIDNEY CROSBY What I hate about Halle Berry is there's always drama around her. It's always fighting, auto...
DONALD TRUMP I'm very lucky that people are able to say, 'Oh, that's that Moody Blues guy!' I'...
JUSTIN HAYWARD Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a reco...
GEORGE HARRISON If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I w...
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AMY GRANT You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea...
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AMY TAN I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to ...
AMY TAN There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being ri...
AMY TAN I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate obse...
AMY TAN My grandmother. She's someone I never met, and I would've loved to have met her. She's b...
AMY TAN I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
AMY TAN Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, bu...
AMY TAN I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the sam...
AMY TAN No one can travel your own road for you; you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems fro...
AMY TAN I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what'...
AMY TAN Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings...
AMY TAN God, life changes faster than you think.
AMY TAN A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them '...
AMY CHUA Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
AMY GRANT My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
AMY SEDARIS I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someo...
AMY SEDARIS You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use y...
AMY SEDARIS I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to mak...
AMY SEDARIS I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's ...
AMY SEDARIS People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
AMY SEDARIS I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But...
AMY SEDARIS