Quotes by Amy Lee

“Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? Cause I can, Im a rock star.”

“Thats where I spent of lot of my high-school years-in the closet. It wasnt too cramped, but you do get really hot.”

“Weve never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.”

“There are people hell-bent on the idea that were a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. Its 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 didnt, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I dont think any of my relatives are surprised.”

“Im not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.”

“If people make fun of you, it probably means youre 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.”

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

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

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

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

If theres one thing I believe, its that I dont know anything and anything can happen

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

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

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

Music is therapy for me. Its my outlet for every negative thing Ive ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

My darlings, if I cant write dark, epic music, I cant live!

I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but Im 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 doesnt matter - just unique stuff.

Whether its a relationship or what youre wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didnt mean it, like - its hard to be totally under the microscope.