Amy Lee Quotes

I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.

We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.

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

I cry alot-I dont know why, but it just helps me. I cry over bad and good stuff-sometimes sadness can be beautiful

I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.

Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!

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.

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

At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.

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 feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that's what consumes me; think a lot of our heart is relationships. Not just with boyfriend or girlfriend but all your relationships in your life with other people and our interactions with other humans.

Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.

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

Too bad you can't quote the look on my face.

I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked.

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.

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.