Mark Ronson: 'Amy Winehouse Doesn't Ask me For Advice'

Mark Ronson says he doesn't talk to Amy Winehouse about her troubled lifestyle.

The super-producer -- who worked with the 'Rehab' hitmaker on her Grammy Award-winning Back To Black album -- says he and Winehouse remain friends, but he doesn't tell her how to live her life.

He says, "I've just been in the studio working with Lily Allen and hopefully I'll get to work with Amy again.

"Obviously when you work with someone, when you have a partnership with them, the way I did with Amy, then you become friends.

"Of course I have time for her, but it's not like she comes to me for advice or anything like that. But we are friends and I really hope we can work together again."

Mark, 32, who was born in London but moved to New York at the age of eight, also revealed that he is to embark on an exciting new challenge next year.

He added, "I've actually agreed to climb Kilimanjaro next March with a friend, to raise money for charity.

"It seemed like a good idea at the time.

"Now all I have to do is give up the cigarettes."