Amy Lee
13 quotes
Biography
"I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy."
"Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful."
"I saw Amadeus when I was nine years old and fell in love with Mozart. The part of Mozart's Requiem called "Lacrymosa" is my favorite piece of music ever. I always wished we could cover it, but with programming and guitars and make it cool. It's our moment to try all the things I wanted to and couldn't, so I started messing with it in Protools. Terry wrote some riffs and turned it into this awesome metal epic."
"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 love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious."
"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."
"If there's one thing I believe, its that I don't know anything and anything can happen"
"'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way."
"When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands."
"My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!"
"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."
"Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope."
"I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher."