7 Quotes by Mitch Winehouse

I'm not Mickey Mouse, I'm a human being.

It was precisely because her songs were dragged up out of her soul that they were so powerful and passionate. The ones that went into "Back to Black" were about the deepest emotions. And she went through hell to make it.

Mind you, you don't get albums written about really good people like Gandhi or Nelson Mandela, do you? Good people's places in Heaven may be assured, but nobody's going to have a chart-topping album full of songs about someone's good deeds.

When Amy returned to London she told me excitedly about some of the Hispanic women she’d seen in Miami, and how she wanted to blend their look – thick eyebrows, heavy eye-liner, bright red lipstick – with her passion for the sixties ‘beehive’.

Apart from the sampler, though, I still hadn’t heard the songs that were on the short-list for Frank and Amy seemed a bit reticent about letting me listen to them. Maybe she thought lyrics like ‘the only time I hold your hand is to get the angle right’ might shock me or that I’d embarrass her. I teased her after I’d finally heard the song. ‘I want to ask you a question,’ I said. ‘That song “In My Bed” when you sing—’ ‘Dad! I don’t want to talk about it!

It was precisely because her songs were dragged up out of her soul that they were so powerful and passionate. The ones that went into “Back to Black” were about the deepest emotions. And she went through hell to make it.

Mind you, you don’t get albums written about really good people like Gandhi or Nelson Mandela, do you? Good people’s places in Heaven may be assured, but nobody’s going to have a chart-topping album full of songs about someone’s good deeds.