Amy Lee

Amy Lee Trivia and Quotes

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Trivia

  • Amy's father works as a DJ, and her mother works raising Amy's three siblings: her brother Robbie and her two sisters, Carrie and Laurie. []
  • Amy Lee won the 2008 Songwriter Icon Award. []
  • Amy was actually surrounded by fire when she sat at the piano during the filming of the music video "Good Enough". []
  • Amy posed with trained wolves during the music video, "Call Me When You're Sober". []
  • Amy designed the clothes she wore in the music video for "Going Under". She also designs many of her other clothes. []
  • On December 1, 2005, former Evanescence manager Dennis Rider filed a lawsuit against Amy Lee for breach of contract. It claims that the ex-manager was unjustly terminated from his position as manager of Evanescence. Amy filed a counter-suit against him for breach of fiduciary duty and sexual assault, as well as other various charges. []
  • Amy's favourite sweets are Godiva chocolates. []
  • Amy was named "Most Talented" in high school. []
  • Amy studied classical piano for over 9 years. []
  • Amy married boyfriend Josh Hartzler, a 29-year-old New York City-based therapist, at her family's home in Little Rock, Arkansas on May 6, 2007. []
  • Amy's favorite show is Family Guy. []
  • Amy Lee was voted Sexiest Female in Kerrang! Magazine, 2006. []
  • Amy wrote a song for the movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, but it was scrapped. Part of the song was used in the track "Good Enough". []
  • Amy Lee has revealed that she no longer keeps in touch with former Evanescence guitarist, Ben Moody. []
  • "Like You", off Evanescence's most recent album The Open Door, is about committing suicide to join a loved one who has recently passed away, in this case Amy's younger sister. This is the second known song Amy Lee has written about suicide. []
  • Amy Lee featured in David Hodges' "Fall Into You" and Big Dismal "Missing You". []
  • Once during an Evanescence performance at MuchMusic in Toronto, Canada, with Amy Lee on piano, she forgot which key 'Bring Me To Life' is played in. The show aired live, and several audience members laughed good-humoredly. The performance was played several more times, and the mistake was left in. []
  • Amy guest-starred at the 2006 MTV Music Video Awards. []
  • Amy admits she enjoys listening to Mariah Carey. []
  • Amy's favorite zombie movie is Dead Alive. []
  • Amy's favourite actor is Giovanni Rabisi. []
  • Amy's life philosophy is "love yourself". []
  • Amy Lee's favourite song off the album Fallen Is "Going Under". []
  • Amy says she is more scared of being in a haunted house than being on a roller coaster. []
  • Amy Lee wrote a song called "Hello" after her three-year-old sister's tragic death. It is on Evanescence's album Fallen. She says it's so personal, that if she performs it live at a concert she'll go into a serious breakdown. []
  • Amy is a spokesperson for the National Epilepsy Foundation, in America. []
  • As president of the choir council in her senior year, she wrote a choir arrangement called "Listen to the Rain" which was performed by the school choir at graduation. []
  • When Amy was offered a cameo in the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, she requested to play a character that gets killed. []
  • Amy thinks that a girl should try to pay on a date, but would go "hmm" if he doesn't try to stop her. []
  • Amy's favourite movies are An American Tail, Nightmare Before Christmas and Dead Alive.
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  • Her favorite holiday is Halloween. []
  • Amy finds smoking unattractive. However she has been known to smoke in the past. She has been seen before smoking Virginia Slims 120's Menthol cigarettes but always away from the public eye. []
  • The first album she owned was the California Raisins tape. []
  • Michael Jackson was her idol growing up. []
  • Her favorite hobbies include painting, drawing, and writing in her journals. []
  • Amy dislikes Christina Aguilera's choice of clothes but listens to her "Stripped" album before every concert. []
  • Hilary Duff has insulted Amy Lee calling her a "freaky looking person that freaks her out", whilst a few months before she said that Amy's band, Evanescence, rocked. []
  • Because she loved choir so much she labelled herself a "choir nerd". []
  • When she was in middle school, she insists that she was, "overweight and had poofy hair". []
  • Amy's favourite albums are SoundGarden's "Superunknown", Portishead's "Dummy", Tori Amos' "Under The Pink", Pearl Jam's "Ten", Janis Joplin's "Cheap Thrills", Michael Jackson's "Dangerous", Bjork's "Post", The Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack, Nirvana's "In Utero" and Korn's "Untouchables". []
  • Amy has once said in an interview that she cries a lot over little stuff, good or bad. []
  • Amy says that the song "Haunted" describes Evanescence the best. []
  • Amy is 5'2" (1.57 m) tall. []
  • Amy's eyes are green, but she sometimes wears blue contact lenses. Her natural hair colour is a light brown, which is almost blond. []
  • Amy said the reason why Evanescence, her band, got to do two songs on the Daredevil Soundtrack is because the people who were looking for new bands wanted a female lead singer to represent Jennifer Garner's strong female character. []
  • At The Grammys when 50 Cent didn't win any awards he told several magazines and sources that he was happy for Evanescence and Amy Lee although he didn't feel that they deserved to win, like he did. []
  • Amy has said she would never tear her clothes off for the media. []
  • She has insulted Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera saying that they show too much skin. []
  • Amy says that if she wasn't a singer, she would be a teacher. []

Quotes

  • Amy: In a way, that's what it's all about, when people can relate to you through your art. []
  • Amy: Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things. []
  • Amy: Nobody's perfect! I'm perfectly flawed. []
  • Amy: The girl with the junk in the trunk will bunk with the best hunk. []
  • Amy: That's why I became a musician, because I suck at sports. []
  • Amy: It's OK to laugh at me, I only look scary. []
  • Amy: If someone is making fun of you, it probably means you're doing something right. []
  • Amy: 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 (on her favorite item of clothing): My Victorian knickers I just bought in Japan. They make me feel like a chick pirate. []
  • Amy (on her weirdest fan moment): 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: I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious. []
  • Amy (when played wrong note while performing "My Immortal"): I've played it so many times I'M LOSING MY MIND! []
  • Amy (when began performing "Bring Me To Life" in the wrong key): It's supposed to be really dramatic. Just pretend. []
  • Amy (on singer Bjork) : She's my idol. It was the only time I was awestruck. I was so shocked to meet her I could hardly speak, which is embarrassing. []
  • Amy (on Evanescence's new album, "The Open Door"): In the first week, it sold four times as many as "Fallen" did. So I think it really pays to write for yourself and not worry about what people are going to think of you.
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  • Amy (when asked if she still keeps it contact with former Evanescence guitarist, Ben Moody): No, screw that guy! We're not friends, it ended pretty badly. I feel like our lives, at least mine, are way better without it. Is that really cruel? []
  • Amy: Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all. []
  • Amy: 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: That's where I spent a lot of my high school years -in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot! []
  • Amy: I don't want to be Christina Aguilera. I want to be Amy Lee, rock queen - not sex queen. []
  • Amy: 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. []
  • Amy: Sometimes I pick my nose. There you have it. []
  • Amy: 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. []
  • Amy: If there's one thing I believe, it's that I don't know anything and anything can happen. []
  • Amy (On Evanescence's video for "Bring Me To Life"): 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. []
  • Amy: People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I can do whatever the hell I want! []
  • Amy (on her wardrobe): 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. []
  • Amy: There's nothing sexy about skin and bone, urgh, you gotta have some junk in the trunk. []
  • Amy: Everyone on the bus can laugh at me, and I'll be like, 'Screw you guys: I look good!' []
  • Amy: It might not look it, but rocking in a corset is harder than you think! []
  • Amy: Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star. []
  • Amy: I was like, 'Dude, make me look bad. Please. I want to look ugly. I want to wear orange pants'. []
  • Amy: Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework. []
  • Amy: Britney Spears and all that, they don't threaten me, they don't bother me, because they're not talented. []

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