Top 70 Amy Lee Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t be afraid of the shadows, it only means there’s a light nearby.”

— Amy Lee

2. “Your vibe attracts your tribe.”

— Amy Lee

3. “Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!”

— Amy Lee

4. “Nobody’s perfect. I’m perfectly flawed.”

— Amy Lee

5. “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.”

— Amy Lee

6. “If people are making fun of you then you’re probably doing something right.”

— Amy Lee

7. “You are who you are, there’s nobody like you, and to try and be like someone else is just a lie.”

— Amy Lee

8. “You can’t control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.”

— Amy Lee

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

— Amy Lee

10. “I refuse to accept Pluto’s resignation as a planet.”

— Amy Lee

11. “So many nights I cried myself to sleep. Now that you love me, I love myself. I never thought I would say this. I never thought there’d be you.”

— Amy Lee

12. “You don’t have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented.”

— Amy Lee

13. “I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.”

— Amy Lee

14. “It’s true we’re all a little insane.”

— Amy Lee

15. “Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.”

— Amy Lee

16. “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!”

— Amy Lee

17. “The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control.”

— Amy Lee

18. “A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.”

— Amy Lee

19. “Too bad you can’t quote the look on my face.”

— Amy Lee

20. “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.”

— Amy Lee

21. “Evanescence fans aren’t the popular kids in school. They aren’t the cheerleaders. It’s the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people.”

— Amy Lee

22. “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.”

— Amy Lee

23. “At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.”

— Amy Lee

24. “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?’”

— Amy Lee

25. “There’s nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.”

— Amy Lee

26. “Christina Aguilera’s ‘Stripped’ had a lot of good songs. It’s my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.”

— Amy Lee

27. “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.”

— Amy Lee

28. “We’ve all fallen, but at the same time we’re not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.”

— Amy Lee

29. “My darlings, if I can’t write dark, epic music, I can’t live!”

— Amy Lee

30. “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 RB and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you’d expect.”

— Amy Lee

31. “Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap.”

— Amy Lee

32. “I’m not the fastest writer. I can’t just crank out ideas that are good enough.”

— Amy Lee

33. “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.”

— Amy Lee

34. “When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.”

— Amy Lee

35. “I’ve always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.”

— Amy Lee

36. “Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.”

— Amy Lee

37. “When you’re miserable, you don’t want anyone around you to be happy.”

— Amy Lee

38. “I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don’t need someone else’s approval.”

— Amy Lee

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

— Amy Lee

40. “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.”

— Amy Lee

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

— Amy Lee

42. “I like Israel. The fans are incredible. It was the best.”

— Amy Lee

43. “There’s one thing I believe, is that I don’t know anything and anything could happen.”

— Amy Lee

44. “I love the creative process. That’s always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.”

— Amy Lee

45. “I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually – in high school especially – classical and metal both, I remember having this cool realization that they are really similar. It’s just different instrumentation.”

— Amy Lee

46. “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.”

— Amy Lee

47. “I’m not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.”

— Amy Lee

48. “I never really did abandon my true self. It’s not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.”

— Amy Lee

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

— Amy Lee

50. “I’m the goofball. I’m the person cracking people up.”

— Amy Lee