Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

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.

Don't be afraid of the shadows, it only means there's a light nearby.

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 don't want to be Christina Aguilera. I want to be Amy Lee, rock queen - not sex queen.

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

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.