Amy Lee Quotes

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

It's true we're all a little insane.

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

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.

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.

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

Nobody's perfect. I'm perfectly flawed.

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

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

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