Amy Lee

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 love folk; that's a big part of my background. ”

I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect. ”

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love. ”

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious. ”

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. ”

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?' ”

The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way. ”

I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them. ”

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