Words matter. These are the best Amy Lee Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don’t know why. They’re hilarious.
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 biggest dream from the beginning – besides Evanescence – is scoring film and writing music for film.
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.
Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.
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.
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.
The way that I’ve always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.
You can’t control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.
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 think it’s important to realize that we’re all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.
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 dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.
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.
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.
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.
The only place I’m recognized is at the mall, because that’s where the teens are.
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.
At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.
L.A. doesn’t have any big personality to me; it’s not inspiring.
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’ve realized that Evanescence is who I am.
