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

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.

There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

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.