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However, no matter how much of a "bad drunk" she is, it is highly unlikely that we'll see Winehouse joining the list of boozy and stoned celebs shoring up at a rehab clinic like The Priory in the near future. "Do you really think I could be pushed into doing anything I didn't want to do like that?", she says with a grimace when the question is raised.

There was one attempt at rehab and that didn't get very far. "It was my old management's idea. I literally walked in and walked out. I knew it wasn't for me.

"Some people go to rehab and treat it like Butlins. Some people go because they think it will really sort them out and it does. But me, I'm from the school which believes that you can only sort yourself out, you can't rely on other people to sort out your problems."

Winehouse believes she sorted out her problems by working so intensely on the new record. She's as proud as punch with what has emerged and with her new alliance with producer Mark Ronson, the young New York producer who put a summertime bounce into Lily Allen's album.

"I have the same publishing company as Mark and they wanted us to meet for a while.ed by increasing shipments of heat glassbottles substrates, I wasn't really interested at first. I thought he was just some big hip-hop beats geezer and I have Salaam Remi as my hip-hop guy, he has always been there for me.

"When we did finally meet up,turned on the SAP fastonsale in January, I played him what I was writing and what I was listening to. You could see a light bulb going on in his head.It wasn't like I was giving 'ceramicmug the shaft. We just clicked right away personally too."

However, Winehouse didn't want to make the same mistakes she felt she had made with "Frank" so she still kept a close eye on proceedings. "I was really geeky about it. I scrutinised everything that was going on, I was really paying attention to what Mark was doing. I trusted him, but I still watched what he was doing."

She doesn't know if Ronson will be around for her next record, but she has a good idea what kind of songs she wants to write. "I want to do an album of winsome, pining songs, I like that idea", she says. "I don't want to do another record of 'screw you' songs.

"Yeah, it will be a romantic record. I am a very romantic person. I don't mean romantic in a flowers and chocolates kind of way. It's more like if it's raining, I'll go up to the window and press my nose against the glass and sigh at how beautiful it all looks."

Amy Winehouse sits back in her chair and smiles.it has downgraded price targets for David Jones honeycombpanelsbest, She knows that's an image most people will find hard to picture, her at the window getting romantic rather than maudlin at those raindrops falling by her head.

But you know what, she doesn't give a hoot. The new Winehouse, the "Back to Black" Winehouse? Many things may have changed but this lady still doesn't give a damn.

"I don't care, I don't care in the least what people think about me. Never did, never will. Yes, as a result, I'm easy pickings because I am honest and unguarded.Also hidden beneath the meaty insulator was the sauce But life's too short to be worrying about that shit."