23 Quotes by Janis Winehouse

Other children seemed to develop a pack mentality around Amy, probably because it was the easiest way to force her back.

There was little continuity to their lives, which only became more fragmented when we separated. To Amy, ‘family’ had become more of a romantic idea than something immediate or tangible. It was me, Alex and her now, and she became fiercely protective of that unit. But my feeling was by then that she’d lost faith in family life completely, if she ever really knew what it was.

There’s no doubt Amy met the world with all guns blazing, but, if I’m honest, I’m not sure what people made of her. Everybody expected to see this rotund American black woman in her forties, but what they got was Amy - short, curvy, Jewish, white and only just turned twenty. What a living, breathing contradiction my daughter was.

She was twenty, emotionally immature, and out there on her own. I don’t think Amy ever really got to know herself; regrettably she never got appreciate herself or feel comfortable with herself.

She was twenty, emotionally immature, and out there on her own. I don’t think Amy ever really got to know herself; regrettably she never got to appreciate herself or feel comfortable with herself.

I’d watched my daughter hatch into this butterfly. Now, just like a butterfly, she flitted around and only landed near me now and again. Every time I saw her she’d settle for a moment, then she’d be off.

I suspect that she was both exhilarated and completely terrified that life was moving so fast for her.

There were aspects of her spiralling problems that were difficult to understand, but they were always made worse by the lies she told to the people who loved her most. And, worst of all, the lies Amy told herself.

...the Amy I knew was a regular tomboy; now it was as if she’d turned up in fancy dress. Did Amy even know who she was anymore? In the hectic life she’d now been catapulted into, I don’t believe she ever had enough time to find out.