Amy Lee Quotes

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

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

I am Evanescence. I am the only band member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine and it's exactly how I want it to be. ~ Evanescence

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 ~ Amy Lee

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

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. ~ Amy Lee

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. ~ Amy Lee

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

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

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

When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone. ~ Evanescence

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. ~ Amy Lee

I'm the goofball. I'm the person cracking people up. ~ Amy Lee

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. ~ Amy Lee

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

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

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

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. ~ Amy Lee

It's dark, spooky, and I LOVE it! ~ Amy Lee

It's true we're all a little insane ~ Amy Lee

I think that our lyrics are definitely dark, but I know for a fact that we pull our inspiration from a million different influences. We listened to everything growing up. Our music isn't just 'opera metal' or 'gothic pop' it's just Evanescence. ~ Evanescence

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

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

Despite any warnings, she continued to move towards the flames he had ignited within her. Her limbs tingled as the fire spread, each touch of Alex's hands and lips caused a wave of cinders. ~ Amy Lee Peine

people die, but real love is forever ~ Amy Lee

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

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. ~ Amy Lee

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

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?' ~ Amy Lee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Amy Lee

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

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

People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want! ~ Evanescence

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Amy Lee

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. ~ Amy Lee

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. ~ Amy Lee

I love singers like Hayley Williams from Paramore and Amy Lee from Evanescence. ~ Lindsey Stirling

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. ~ Amy Lee

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

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

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. ~ Amy Lee

I like to use two basic elements for my clothing: rock ... you know, metal and chains and stuff - mixed with fairies and drama and Victorian clothing - fantasy. ~ Evanescence

It's okay to laugh at me, I only look scary. ~ Evanescence

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. ~ Amy Lee

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. ~ Amy Lee

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. ~ Amy Lee

I believe the connection is growing stronger. Just to think that 40-plus years ago, service members would return from combat to get spit on by so many civilians. Regardless of what we think about a conflict, we must always honor and be grateful for those men and women who serve. ~ Lee Zeldin

It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort. ~ Lee Gutkind

How empire permeates! ~ Dennis Lee

Compulsion is attraction without reason. ~ Candice Raquel Lee

I'm not going to be raped. I'm not going to be murdered. I'm going to bring him to justice so this never happens to anyone else. I'm not going to think like a victim. I'm going to think like a winner. Because that's what I am. I'm Ruthless, by God, and I need to act like it. ~ Carolyn Lee Adams

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing. ~ Amy Carlson

It takes life to love life. ~ Edgar Lee Masters

some girls are more special than others. ~ Amy Meredith

I literally make music for my wife and my friends. I don't feel beholden to my fans. I don't even really know who they are. But, I know that this whole thing started with me making stuff that I got off on, and I've gotta believe that that's how it's going to end, too. That's the only way it can go. There are a lot of artists who have gotten pretty caught up in that. That's why I like the defeatist attitude. Just assume that no one is going to like it and that no one cares, and you'll end up making something that you really like. ~ Ben Lee

We listened patiently to Lester, words skittering out of his mouth like cartoon dogs on fresh-waxed linoleum, frantically going nowhere. ~ Amy Tan

Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. It's all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very famous chef tell me that. ~ Sandra Lee

Oh, love is handsome, love is charming
Love is beauty while it's new
But love grows old and love grows colder
And fades away like morning dew. ~ Amy Ewing

All right. Talk to me darlin'. You're not insane. A little crazy, but not insane. And this ... everything you've gotten ... in the last few days ... do you know how many people would kill for this?"
"But ... ~ Shelly Laurenston

Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal. ~ F. Lee Bailey

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust ... ~ Megan Lee

I really am okay," he murmured.
It was more than Ivy could stand. Of course he was okay. She had no doubt Dean would always soldier on, always come out on top.
Dean Bennet was always going to be okay.
But that didn't mean she couldn't grieve for all that he'd lost. That there wasn't a wounded kid in there somewhere who needed a hug just as much as she did. ~ Amy Andrews

Dancing is the great equalizer. It gets people out of their heads and into their bodies. ~ Amy Poehler

She gave him a dubious look, as if he wasn't quite right in the head. "Sometimes, Englishman, I do not
understand you. I love you, but I do not always understand you."
She turned and started across the meadow. He remained where he was and watched her walk away,
with her skirts in her hand and the sun on her hair.
"I love you, too," he said, but only after she was too far away to hear. "I always have. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~ Harper Lee

She was a classic beauty. She looked like a coin, so it was only natural for her to circulate. ~ Christopher Lee

I like the idea of shows where I don't know where I'll be at the end of the season. ~ Amy Acker

Taverns were not the safest place to discuss politics or religion. Everybody was armed or drunk, usually both, and proprietors sensibly discouraged heated discussions. Coffeehouses, on the other hand, encouraged political debate, which was precisely why King Charles II banned them in 1675 9 (he withdrew the ban in eleven days)... Intelligent people discussing interesting things in an intelligible manner. ~ Stewart Lee Allen

There was one vampire movie that Gerard Butler was in, 'Dracula 2000,' and they touched on something interesting, but it only worked in the context of that particular movie, which was that the original vampire was Judas. ~ Amy Heckerling

In life, we chase things like money and status, but there things have no lasting value relative to the soul. Only the soul has absolute value, which is why I believe it should be at the center of everyone's life ~ Ilchi Lee

That is what courage is: it is acting in the face of fear. ~ Amy A. Bartol

Suddenly I felt like a bona fide man-eater. A Slutasaurus rex. ~ Christina Lee

I'm very happy that being gay and married and having kids has become such an accepted piece of the fabric of America. ~ Amy B. Harris

You can make a story mean anything Meoraq. But that's the think with you religious people, isn't it? God is this glorious intangibility, so no proof becomes proof just by how you spin it. ~ R. Lee Smith

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention ~ Lee Harvey Oswald

In the life of one man, Lee Sherman, I saw reflected both sides of the Great Paradoz--the need for help and a principled refusal of it. ~ Arlie Russell Hochschild

How do you separate the truth from the way memory distorts it? ~ Lee Houck

See why you touched it in the first place," Mr. Link Deas was saying. "You've got everything to lose from this, Atticus. I mean everything." "Do you really ~ Harper Lee

But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed. ~ Amy Carmichael

My parents have always worried that I'd take Amy too personally - they always tell not to read too much into her, And yet I can't fail to notice that whenever I screw something up, Amy does it right: When I finally quit violin at age twelve, Amy was revealed as a prodigy in the next book. ("Sheesh, violin can be hard work, but handwork is the only way to get better!") When I blew off the junior championship at age sixteen to do a beach weekend with friends, Amy recommitted to the game. ("Sheesh, I know it's fun to spend time with friends, but I'd be letting myself and everyone else down if I didn't show up for the tournament.") This used to drive me mad, but after I wend off to Harvard (and Amy correct those my parents' alma mater), I decided it was all too ridiculous to think about. That my parents, two child psychologists, chose this particular public form of passive-aggressiveness toward their child was not just fucked up but also stupid and weird and kind of hilarious. ~ Gillian Flynn

There is no arrogance more harmful than one's certainty that their religious beliefs be compulsory for everyone. ~ F. Lee Barham

Inertia, force, mass, gravity, velocity, acceleration. . .cause and effect.

Liz Emerson doesn't understand any of it.

But I do.

I understand how we fall. Where we fall. Why we fall.

I understand her sadness and loneliness and silence, her shattered heart.

It doesn't have to be this way, does it?

It wasn't always this way, was it?

Stay alive, Liz Emerson, stay alive. ~ Amy Zhang

I finally just slept with my high school crush. But I swear; now he expects me to go to his graduation - like I know where I'm going to be in three years. ~ Amy Schumer

I really try to forget. I only look at my old works if there's an interview and someone asks me about it. Otherwise, it's not even in the rearview mirror. ~ Chang-rae Lee

If you'd put it in a Powerpoint deck don't put it in your ad ~ Lee Clow