Lee: “It's true we're all a little insane.”

Lee: "Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star."

Lee: "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."

Lee: "The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control."

Lee: "You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it."

Lee: "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."

Lee: "I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval."

Lee: "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."

Lee: "If people are making fun of you then you're probably doing something right."

Lee: "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."

Lee: "I've realized that Evanescence is who I am."

Lee: "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."

Lee: "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."

Lee: "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."

Lee: "I'm the goofball. I'm the person cracking people up."

Lee: "I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something."

Lee: "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?'"

Lee: "I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet."

Lee: "I hate following the plan. That’s not the way I’m wired. If there’s a plan, I usually want to do exactly the opposite. It’s cool not having a plan because I’ll come up with some creative, crazy idea and I’ll just go do it."

Lee: "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 R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect."

Lee: "I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them."

Lee: "I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that's what consumes me; think a lot of our heart is relationships. Not just with boyfriend or girlfriend but all your relationships in your life with other people and our interactions with other humans."

Lee: "Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework."

Lee: "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."

Lee: "My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, i can't live!"

Lee: "I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised."

Lee: "I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should."

Lee: "I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that's what consumes me; think a lot of our heart is relationships. Not just with boyfriend or girlfriend but all your relationships in your life with other people and our interactions with other humans."

Lee: "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."

Lee: "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 R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect."

Lee: "I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her."

Lee: "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."

Lee: "I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect."

Lee: "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."

Lee: "Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb."

Lee: "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."

Lee: "I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band."

Lee: "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."

Lee: "I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy."

Lee: "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."

Lee: "I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious."