Wednesday June 27, 2007
Amy Winehouse in Los Angeles, CA. June 4, 2007.
Finalpixx.com; Courtesy of Spin
Amy Winehouse has graduated from self-destruction to self-mutilation.
In the new issue of Spin, Winehouse, 23, is in rare form (which is not that rare for her), letting the naughty words fly, taking “long bathroom breaks” during the photo shoot, and later checking her nose in a shard of broken mirror.
Then, during the photo shoot, “she stands against the wall, flashes popping as she gently carves ‘I LOVE BLAKE’ onto her bare stomach with that shard of mirror," in honor of husband Blake Fielder-Civil.
See interview highlights below to learn how Amy feels about being a celebrity, what’s on her iPod, and how she gets her hair so high. And now, a few words from our second filthy-mouthed Brit of the day...
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 performanceon 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?”
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