Amy Lee Quotes
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Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!
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The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.
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It's okay to laugh at me, I only look scary.
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Everyone on the bus can laugh at me, and I'll be like, 'Screw you guys: I look good!'
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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.
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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.
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I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.
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My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.
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If people are making fun of you, then you're probably doing something right.
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I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.
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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?'
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I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.
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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.
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I like Israel. The fans are incredible. It was the best.
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I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.
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I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.
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I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.
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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.
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I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.
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L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.
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The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control.
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When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.
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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.
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Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.