Nick Gatfield: She was a very old soul in a very young body.
Amy Winehouse: I don't think I'm going to be at all famous. I don't think I could handle it. I'd probably go mad, do you know what I mean? I would go mad.
Amy Winehouse: Success to me is not success to the record company or whoever. Success to me is having the freedom to work with whoever I want to work with, to always be able to go to the studio when I have to go to the studio... I think the more people see of me, the more they'll realise that all I'm good for is making tunes. So leave me alone and I'll do it. I will do the music. I just need time to do the music.
Andrew Morris: Friday night, she was showing me some clips on her laptop. She was singing on the stage. And she said "Boy, I can sing!" I said, "Damn right you can sing." She said, "If I could give that back, just to walk down the street with no hassle, I would."
Tony Bennett: Life teaches you how to live it if you live long enough.
Sam Beste: She had one of the most pure relationships to music. Such an emotional relationship to music. It's like she needed music, as if it was a person, and that she would die for it.
