Amy Lee Quotes
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The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.
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The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.
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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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It's okay to laugh at me, I only look scary.
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You don’t have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented.
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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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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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I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.
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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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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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Everyone on the bus can laugh at me, and I'll be like, 'Screw you guys: I look good!'
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I like Israel. The fans are incredible. It was the best.
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L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.
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My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.
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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 dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.
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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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The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control.
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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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I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.
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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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You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.
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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.