"I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval."
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Amy Lee quotes (page 3 of 4)
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"My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film."
"It's true we're all a little insane."
"You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it."
"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."
"Something that's fun for me is a challenge. When you have a challenge and you take on that challenge and succeed, that's the best feeling."
"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."
"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."
"Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all."
"I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something."
"When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy."
"The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way."
"I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should."
"Nobody's perfect. I'm perfectly flawed."
"There's one thing I believe, is that I don't know anything and anything could happen."
"Too bad you can't quote the look on my face."
"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."
"The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love."
"Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb."
"L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring."