Amy Lee Quotes

I love writing songs.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how beautiful music is. It is where you can create everything, like beautiful songs to sad songs to almost anything.

I've always written songs. I'd come home from school and play piano for hours on end, just banging around.

Music was the first art form I ever had.

I never wanted to stop making music.

Most people think a song is a song - three minutes, and you're done. I don't think this way. Songs are my wings. They're what I use to fly. It's very important for me to put everything in the right place.

You get to tell your story through your music if you choose to.

I've been able to carve my way out with lyrics and melodies.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

Music is my life. It is sacred.

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.