Amy Lee Quotes
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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.
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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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When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.
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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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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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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.
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Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.
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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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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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I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.
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My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.
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I like Israel. The fans are incredible. It was the best.
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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 love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.
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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 want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.
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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.
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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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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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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.