Best 56 quotes of Amy Lee on MyQuotes

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.

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

Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.

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.

Everyone on the bus can laugh at me, and I'll be like, 'Screw you guys: I look good!'

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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 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.

I like Israel. The fans are incredible. It was the best.

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.

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

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

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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?'

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.

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.

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

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

Nobody's perfect. I'm perfectly flawed.

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!

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.

That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years -- in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.

The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.

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

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

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.

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

There's one thing I believe, is that I don't know anything and anything could happen.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

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.

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

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