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

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.

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.

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!

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

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

Every time a cool rock chick or actress seems to respect themselves as a strong woman, I'm like, 'Yeah!' And I love them, and they're my girls. And then they start to go downhill and people aren't paying attention anymore. So they start stripping their clothes off, because that's all they have left. I swear to everything I've ever known, I will never do that