5 inspirational quotes by Amy Winehouse on her 33rd birthday Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does. So there’s no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts. I don’t care about all that pop stuff and I couldn’t go to the Smash Hits poll winners’ party without bringing a gun. If you don’t throw yourself into something, you’ll never know what you could have had. I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes. I don’t ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I don’t mean to be rude, but those people have no soul.