Amy Lee

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

“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.”

“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 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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I've realized that Evanescence is who I am.”

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

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