About Me:
i love evanescence they are the most popualar gothic rock band and of course i love amy lee she is the prettiest gurl ever! i like the band garbage and dir en grey i also have a profile on www.gaiaonline.com my user names are evanescencefreak 2 and snow white queen 2 so please look at my profiles!
# She loves Tori Amos, Nirvana, Michael Jackson, Bjork, Coldplay.
# Her favourite "Fallen" song is "Going Under", but says "Haunted" describes the band best. ANother speculation is that it is "Imaginary".
# One of her favourite movies is An American Tail.
# She used to have a cat named Fievel (she found it in a ditch and then had to give it away because the band was going on tour).
# She also hates "Who Let The Dogs Out" by The Baha Men.
# She hates fast food, including McDonalds and Burger King.
# Her favourite holiday is Halloween.
# The one thing she could bring with her to a deserted island would be a piano.
# Her fave era is the Victorian era because they had such cool clothes.
# She is allergic to lobster. If she eats it she'll go into coma.
# If she wasn't famous she would "help people in some way".
# Her natural hair colour is a light brown which is almost blond and her natural eye colour is radiant green. She once wore an outfit/dress that said "B!tch" that is now called the "B!tch" dress Amy said that even though that "My Immortal" is a big hit on the radios and TV she hates that song because it doesn't reflect on Evanescence's real picture.
# "Bring Me to Life" was written based on a story from a guy who Amy knew, who was able to see through her facade of peing "smiley", and could see that she was actually sad. Amy had to beg so hard to her parents to learn to play piano Amy would like to be a good cook.
# Amy took acting lessons for stage presence before they started recording Fallen.
# Amy is named after the 70's song "Amie".
# Her most embarrassing celeb crush is Corey Feldman from The Goonies.
# Amy would prefer to stay at home and play in one place, but she still likes to tour.
# She admits to listening to Mariah Carey.
# Her favorite movie is the Nightmare Before Christmas. Her favorite actor is Giovanni Ribisi.
# Her favorite zombie movie is Dead Alive. She's been to the Haunted Mansion at Disney World "a million times".
# She's more scared of a haunted house than a roller coaster.
# The first album she owned was the California Rasins tape.
# Her favorite 80's song is "Everything She Wants" By Wham!. She's sang that song karaoke five times.
# The beach is one of her favorite places - she loves the ocean.
# In high school, she was active in choir and drama. She was also president of the choir! Hence her name for herself, "choir nerd".
# She doesn't really have any childhood names, it was always either Amy, Ames, or Amers.
# When she was in middle school, she insists that she was, "overweight and had poofy hair".
# She describes herself in 3 words: unique, sympathetic, misunderstood.
# Her favorite hobbies include painting, drawing, and writing in her journals.
# Her life philosophy is "Love Yourself".
# She thinks that a girl should try to pay on a date, but would go "hmm" if he doesn't try to stop her.
# She had a cat named Fievel, because of her favorite movies was "An American Tail".
# Her worst vice is Godiva chocolate. She says she will only get two...and then gets six or seven
# The first tape album she owned was The California Raisins tape.
# She said that the guys stink after a show, especially her. Top 5 favorite female singers:
1. Janis Joplin
2. Beth Gibbons of Portishead
3. Bjork
4. Carole King
5. Tori Amos She loves Stevie Wonder, she even trys to copy his style! She loves Stevie Wonder, she even trys to copy his style!
# She can't live without Soundgarden's "Superunknown" and Dr. Dre's "The Chronic".
# She doesn't understand why anyone want's to wear thongs - she prefers panties anyday.
# She loves to drive, but when she does, she scares her passengers to death.
# She hates politics, and thinks Arnold Schwarzenegger is hilarious.
# No diet for her, she prefers full-fat.
# She thinks Jason is scarier than Freddy, because you don't know how his face looks like.
# She prefers cash over checks.
# She designs most of her own costumes.
# She believes in the supernatural, she played in a haunted club once. She even sensed a presence many times!
# Favorite car: A Dolorian (back to the future, plus the Flux capacitator)
# If she wasn't in show biz, she would help people by being a nurse or social worker. Especially helping abused kids.
# Her dad works as a DJ and her mom worked raising her 3 siblings!
# She has a huge fear of sharks!
# She has dated Shaun Morgan of Seether. She met him in some summer tour and then they began dating.
# She has insulted Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera saying that they show too much skin.
# At The Grammys when 50 Cent didn't win any awards he told several magazines and sources that it was good for Evanescence and Amy Lee, although he didn't feel that they deserved to win, like he did.
# Amy Lee said the reason why Evanescence, her band, got to do two songs on the Daredevil album is because the people who were looking for new bands wanted a female lead singer to represent Jennifer Garner's strong female character.
Amy Lee Quotes
'"I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing."
"I know how it feels to be completely alone and helpless, and the last thing you want to hear in that situation is, 'It's going to be OK.' "The only thing that seems to really help is that someone else who has felt that low expressing those feelings to you."
"Can we please skip the Christian thing? I'm so over it. It's the lamest thing. I never wanted to be associated with it. It was a Ben thing. It's over. It's a new day."
"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'm retarded and I'm on TV"
"As a woman I feel offended because these artists portray women as people that can only do well in the world by selling their bodies. I'm determined to help prove that to be false"
"If people make fun fun of you, you must be doing something right"
"I smell burger! who has burger?!"
"When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone"
"It might not look it but rocking in a corset is harder than you think"
"My little sister was really getting into these, I don't want to offend anyone, but like really fake, cheesy, slutty female cracker-box idols, and it really pissed me off. She started dressing like them and she was like 8 years old. So I gave her the talk and I wrote a song."
“I was like, 'Dude, make me look bad. Please. I want to look ugly. I want to wear orange pants.'”
“Britney Spears and all that, they don’t threaten me, they don’t bother me, because they’re not talented.”
"I don't want to ever be a quote-unquote rock star. I want to just be me."
"We've been playing at like 9:30. We're used to playing at more like ten thirty or eleven. I thought you guys [people from Australia] were partiers, what the hell?"
"Too bad you can't quote the look on my face."
"It's OK to laugh at me, I only look scary."
"Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework."
"There's one thing I believe, is that I don't know anything and anything could happen."
"If people make fun of you, it probably means you're doing something right."
"You think you know, but you have no idea."
"Kiss my f*cking ass in D-Minor."
"Don't be afraid of the shadows, it only means there's a light nearby."
"Nobody's perfect. I'm perfectly flawed."
"We're all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again."
"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 defintely 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 cand 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." (refering to double used in "Bring Me Back To Life" video)
"Theres nothing sexy about skin and Bone, Urgh, you gotta have some junk in the trunk"
"If theres one thing i believe, its that i dont 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 alot-I dont 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."
"You think you know, but you have no idea!"