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

Don't be afraid of the shadows, it only means there's a light nearby.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked.

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

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

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.

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

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!

In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.

My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.

I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

There's only so many movies you can do. I start to get really self-loathing and sick of myself. And I think in order to act, you need to live a little bit to fill yourself with experience.

Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out.