Quotes from 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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

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 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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.