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Quotes
 I'm
glad that people are accepting our music and are connected to our art.
Whether we're popular or not, I don't care.
Honestly
I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.
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.
I'm
not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them
into this band.
That's
where I spent of lot of my high-school years-in the closet. It wasn't
too cramped, but you do get really hot.
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 don't want to be
Christina
Aguilera. I want to be Amy Lee, rock queen - not sex queen.
I'm just a princess in a rock-star age.
Everyone on the bus can laugh at me, and I'll be like, 'Screw you guys: I look good!'
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
Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.
We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.
That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years --in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.
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. When we younger, Ben would come over and I'd come down the steps wearing some huge petticoat that I stole from school.
I experienced a little bit of trauma in my childhood, and I'm constantly trying to be get back there. I'm obsessed with anything that takes me back to when I was 6,7,8.
I think that our lyrics are
definitely dark, but I know for a fact that we pull our inspiration from a million different influences. We listened to everything growing up. Our music isn't just 'opera metal' or 'gothic pop' it's just Evanescence.
I like to use two basic elements for my clothing: rock... you know, metal and chains and stuff - mixed with fairies and drama and Victorian clothing - fantasy.
I love choir, I'm a choir nerd.
My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.
People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I
cant do whatever the hell I want!
That was real. I climbed up that stuff. And I fell. But there's this shot where's this really really big fall and a girl with an unattractive ass. That's not my ass. I've got a way better ass then that girl.
There's nothing sexy about skin and Bone, Urgh, you gotta have some junk in the trunk.
If
there's one thing i believe, its that i don't know anything and anything can happen.
If all we ever sang about was how happy we are, we would be lying to ourselves. People try to escape their problems by getting drunk, partying and dancing them away. What really heals me is to sit down and think, face the facts, then you can get over it and be happy.
I cry
a lot-I don't know why, but it just helps me. I cry over bad and good stuff-sometimes sadness can be beautiful.
Sometimes I pick my nose. There you have it.
I was 13 and a little overweight with poofy hair. I was just trying to look busy so the counselors wouldn't try to buddy me up with the runny-nose kid in the corner.
A lot of fans come up and say, 'This song changed my life, can you tell me what you meant when you wrote it?' or 'This song saved me when I had to go through a messy divorce.' It's really moving sometimes.
We've
never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.
The
fact that he left the band, it wasn't like it killed me and hurt my
feelings and made me feel like I lost a friend, it was actually more of
a relief because he'd been so unhappy on tour recently that it was
making everyone else unhappy. We all hope he's happier now.
If
there's anything I've learned I don't really know and anything can
happen.
We're
definitely a rock band, but the twist is that the band's music is epic,
dramatic, dark rock.
My
darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, i can't live!
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