Amy Lee Quotations

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

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

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.

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.

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?'

I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.

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

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

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.

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

I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

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.

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.

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

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

When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.

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

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 really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to RB and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.

I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.

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

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

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.

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

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

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

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

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

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

I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.

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.

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.

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.

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

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

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

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

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

I've realized that Evanescence is who I am.

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

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.

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.

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

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 never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

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

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

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

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

Me and my husband say parents of a parent should raise their children. Some people need help with their children more than others, and she's one of the ones that needs some help.

People will spend copious amounts of time and money working on a costume, only to have no one recognize what character they're dressed as.

L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.

Our interaction with the non-con-going public was limited, which means that while we looked pretty strange, it's nothing out of the ordinary at an anime convention.

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

Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!

I cry alot-I dont know why, but it just helps me. I cry over bad and good stuff-sometimes sadness can be beautiful

Everyone on the bus can laugh at me, and I'll be like, 'Screw you guys: I look good!'

I know how it feels to be completely alone and helpless, and the last thing you want to hear in that situation is, 'It's going to be OK.' "The only thing that seems to really help is that someone else who has felt that low expressing those feelings to you.

L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.

So many nights I cried myself to sleep. Now that you love me, I love myself. I never thought I would say this. I never thought there'd be you.

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

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

It might not look it but rocking in a corset is harder than you think

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

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

It's true we're all a little insane

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

If all we ever sang about was how happy we are, we would be lying to ourselves. People try to escape their problems by getting drunk, partying and dancing them away. What really heals me is to sit down and think, face the facts, then you can get over it and be happy

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

Nobody's perfect. I'm perfectly flawed.

Every time a cool rock chick or actress seems to respect themselves as a strong woman, I'm like, 'Yeah!' And I love them, and they're my girls. And then they start to go downhill and people aren't paying attention anymore. So they start stripping their clothes off, because that's all they have left. I swear to everything I've ever known, I will never do that

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.

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.

You are who you are, there's nobody like you, and to try and be like someone else is just a lie.

Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.

I don't want to be Christina Aguilera. I want to be Amy Lee, rock queen - not sex queen.

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

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.

Don't be afraid of the shadows, it only means there's a light nearby.

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!

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

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.

If people make fun of you, it probably means you're doing something right.

The improving job market in the past few quarters has reinforced consumer confidence both in their own job security as well as in the state of their personal finances. Hong Kong people are more willing to put their hands in their pockets now.

The making of this record has been really intense, but I've come out feeling purified. I've grown so much since 'Fallen,' and Terry is the perfect writing partner--I feel like I've been lifted up to a whole new level of inspiration and possibilities. After all the things we've seen over the past couple of years, beautiful and tragic, in the end I'm really grateful. It has made us create music I could not be more in love with.