British jazz/soul singer Amy Winehouse graces the cover of Spin magazine. She talks about her relationship with Blake, how f*cked up in the head she is, and what she thinks about her celebrity status. Here are some excerpts from the interview...
On getting kicked out of multiple schools:
“I was just disruptive, I suppose. I loved school and I loved learning, but things piled up, I guess.”
On what music she listens to:
“I don’t listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It’s all quite dramatic and atmospheric…I never listen to, like, white music – I couldn’t send you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.”
On her father, a taxi driver named Mitch:
“We’re good friends. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about and neither do I.”
On why she writes:
“I write songs because I’m f—ked in the head and need to get something good out of something bad…I thought, ‘F—k, I’m going to die if I don’t write down the way I feel. I’m going to f—king do myself in.’ It’s nothing spectacular.”
On her infamous up do:
“A lot of practice, a lot of back-combing and hairspray.”
On temporarily breaking up with now-husband Blake Fielder-Civil a few years ago:
“We were always close, but we got to the point where it was hurting other people for us to keep seeing each other. It just made sense for us to be together. I’m still singing about it every night on my knees, crying onstage. But when I’m with him, I feel like nothing bad can happen.”
On flubbing a performance on Total Request Live:
“That was f--king horrible. When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting. I wanted to die.”
On being a celebrity:
“I don’t care. I don’t care about any of this, and I don’t have much of an opinion of myself. I don’t think people care about me, and I’m not in this to be a f—king role model…I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about. And if I did, I’d be a f—king c—t, wouldn’t I?”
