Amy Lee Quotes

We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.

That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years
in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.

I cry a lot-I don't know why, but it just helps me. I cry over bad and good stuff-sometimes sadness can be beautiful

I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.

I don't want to ever be a quote-unquote rock star. I want to just be me.

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.

The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control.

You don't have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented.

It's true we're all a little insane

The only place I'm recognized is at the mall, because that's where the teens are.

I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that's what consumes me; think a lot of our heart is relationships. Not just with boyfriend or girlfriend but all your relationships in your life with other people and our interactions with other humans.

We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.

Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap.

My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people.

I love folk; that's a big part of my background.

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.

I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.

people die, but real love is forever

If people are making fun of you then you're probably doing something right.

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

Too bad you can't quote the look on my face.

I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.

My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.

I like Israel. The fans are incredible. It was the best.

It's dark, spooky, and I LOVE it!

I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked.

There's one thing I believe, is that I don't know anything and anything could happen.

Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff.

There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.

There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.

I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

Something that's fun for me is a challenge. When you have a challenge and you take on that challenge and succeed, that's the best feeling.

I'm the goofball. I'm the person cracking people up.

A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.

The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.

I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classical and metal both, I remember having this cool realization that they are really similar. It's just different instrumentation.

Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope.