On music, art and industry

~ "It doesn't matter where you are, an artist is an artist."
~ "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 love choir, I'm a choir nerd."
~ "Inspiration always comes in the middle of the night, when you should be doing your homework."
~ "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."
~ "F*** you, pal." (Amy at a concert responding to a guy who asked her to take off her shirt.)
~ "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!"
~ "I'm an artist, visual and musical, so it's cool for me to put clothes together and it is part of me, it's genuine. But I don't dress like that every day, come on. It's just a piece of me that's gone into evanescence and it's become that. It's almost a character, because it's just one element of who I am. It is me, but it's just one piece. And I'm like a thousand pieces, just like everybody is; there's a lot of elements to one personality."
~ "Some people at the shows are yelling, 'Marry Me!' or whatever. And I'm like, 'Guys, let's just stop it."
~ "Everyone on the bus can laugh at me, and I'll be like... Screw you guys, I look good"
~ "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."
~ "All of a sudden you have to deal with all these things like royalties and publishing issues and percentages and this and that and the other thing. All that crap is a waste of space in my head that I could definitely do without. The business aspect of things really sucks when all you want to do is make music."
~ "We love playing live shows so much, I can't even tell you."
~ "Determination and remembering that it is all about the passion for the music. It shouldn't be about business, technical stuff, or rules. It should just be about love for the music. We are music lovers. I love my job. I love music more than anything on earth. If we can always keep in mind and remember that's what it should be about." (about the key to success.)

Random

~ "If there's one thing I believe, its that I don’t know anything and anything can happen."
~ "It's ok it's a big word, Americans it's cool whatever, I'm not gonna say anything, people should just read more books." (talking about the band name.)
~ "The girl with the junk in the trunk will bunk with the best hunk."
~ "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."

~ "I cry alot - I dont know why, but it just helps me. I cry over bad and good stuff - sometimes sadness can be beautiful."
~ "Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things."
~ "Yes!!!" (When asked, if she's tired of the same old interview questions.)
~ "I respect myself, I always have."

On other people

~ "I love the boys. I couldn't do it without them." (about the guys in the band.)
~ "He's full of crap. He signs *everything.*" (about Ben Moody)

~ "That's what this is all about." (about fans.)
~ "I don't think either of us really fit in that well, and possibly that's what drew us together." (about them starting the band at camp.)

Songs meanings

~ "There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience."
~ "Open-mindedness. It's about waking up to all the things you've been missing for so long. One day someone said something that made my heart race for a second and I realized that for months I'd been numb, just going through the motions of life." (about Bring Me To Life.)

~ "The lyrics are about coming out of a bad relationship. And when you're at the end of your rope, when you're at the point where you realize something has to change, that you can't go on living in the situation that you're in. It's cool. It's a very strong song." (about Going Under.)

~ "That's the difference between us. Ben tends to write like a storyteller, and it's not necessarily from any kind of personal experience. I can't bring myself to write about anything I don't understand completely. For me, writing is always about some specific thing that's happened, so sometimes I feel a little distanced singing the song, but I still love it." (about My Immortal which mainly was written by Ben Moody.)

~ "A lot of our songs are written in a way that you could take them to mean several different things. That one was written by our drummer Rocky [Gray], who was in a Christian death metal band before he joined us. He told me that it is coming from a Christian standpoint, but it's about suicide. It's from the perspective of someone who has just committed suicide and it's about the controversy in Christianity that if you commit suicide, will you go to heaven or hell? If all sins are forgiven after accepting Christ, why would there be an exception?" (about Tourniquet.)

~ "Taking Over Me is about obsession. Like your obsessed with someone who you believe is the one for you. I dont know. It's about obsession." (about Taking Over Me.)

~ "This song is about loving someone so much that you could bring him back from dead." (about Even In Death.)

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