Amy Lee
Amy Lee
Amy Lynn Hartzler, known professionally as Amy Lee, is an American singer-songwriter, classically trained pianist and composer. She is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Evanescence. Along with her contributions with the band, Lee has also participated on numerous other musical projects including Walt Disney Records' Nightmare Revisited and Muppets: The Green Album. Lee has performed collaborations with artists such as Korn, Seether, and David Hodges. Lee is also the American chairperson for the international epilepsy awareness...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth13 December 1981
CityRiverside, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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?'
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.
You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.
I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.
The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.
I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.
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 am Evanescence. I am the only original member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine and it's exactly how I want it to be.
There's one thing I believe, is that I don't know anything and anything could happen.
Nobody's perfect. I'm perfectly flawed.
When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.
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
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.