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
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.
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.
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.
I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.
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.
You are who you are, there's nobody like you, and to try and be like someone else is just a lie.
I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.
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.
I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.
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.
Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.
There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.
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.
I don't want to be Christina Aguilera. I want to be Amy Lee, rock queen - not sex queen.