"Ben is a riot and is always making noise and doing weird stuff, but thats just him." Amy About Ben ? "I love choir, im a choir nerd." Amy ? " Do you know how many times Amy has puked on me?" Ben ? " Aah! where do i go"- Amy being lost after coming offstage after a preformance in italy. ? " You wanted attention!!!!." - Ben talking about Amy playing the piano on her own at camp ? " Something tells me a bomb would take our bus out" Ben ? " I dont even have a jeep, let alone a bomb proof jeep!" -Ben ? " He's full of crap. he signs *everything" - Amy bout Ben ? " I love the boys, i couldn't do without them." Amy talking about the bous in the band ? "We'll just drink and go on" - Ben on dealing with his nerves before a preformance on the Tonight Show. ? " A very trippy experience" - Amy about being on the tonight show with Jay Leno. ? " I used to do the rap in bring me to life, but they couldn't handle my flow" - Ben ? "She's not that attractive. I mean, she was hard to look at at first, but I figured, rough around the edges, but she can sing good." - Ben, joking about Amy ? "To me, it's about the search for something more in life. It's about meaning." - Amy about Bring Me To LIfe ? "F*** you, pal." - Amy at a concert, responding to a guy who asked her to take off her shirt ? ? "That's what this is all about." - Amy about the fans ? "We love playing live shows so much, I can't even tell you." - Amy ? "It's already been broughten." - Ben ? "We have to give these people their money's worth, so we just tell her to shut up." Ben about Amy losing her voice ? "That's the most rock-and-roll story in the world. No one can top it." - Ben on how he and Amy met ? "It's weird when you open up Billboard...because you see your name next to 50 Cent and Madonna. I mean, 50 Cent who I grew up on for the last month." - Ben ? ? ? "I'll be damned if I know the secret. I think it's just doing what you love. Success isn't about how well you do with fame or money or whatever. I think what success really is, is when you find something you love and you can do it for the rest of your life. I think the secret is making work something you love, instead of working your ass off so you can do what you love, because you're never going to get there." - Amy, when asked about what their secret to success is. ? ? "If you agree, you?re vain. If you disagree, you?re not supporting your own music." - Amy when asked how she handles compliments ? ? "Who in here doesn't want me to show them my t--s?" - Amy in concert, responding to some guys ? ? "I respect myself, I always have." - Amy ? ? ? "Every time a cool rock chick seems to respect themselves as a strong woman, I'm like, 'Yeah!'" - Amy ? ? ? "Linkin Park has one song with an eight-piece orchestra. We have eight songs with a forty-four-piece orchestra." - Ben on the differences between Evanescence and Linkin Park ? ? "It is Latin for "save us from evil" and then "save us from Danger." I think those are the right order." Amy about the meaning of the chants in Whisper ? ? ? "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." - Amy about the key to success ? ? ? "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." - Amy ? ? ? No one really seemed to care about how many people were in the band, just the fact that one of them was a woman." - Ben ? ? ? "Live is much heavier. It is the record turned up to 11, basically." - Ben about their live shows ? ? "It's kind of a joke. I really don't want to be associated with Meat Loaf." - Amy about the fact that she played Meat Loaf when her and Ben met, and it's always mentioned in the story ? ? ? "He rambles." - Amy about Ben ? ? ? "She's a hot all-American girl." - Ben about Amy ? ? ? "Who's that sign for, your sister?" - Amy to some guys at a concert that held up a sign asking her to show her t**s (and after Ben threw a water bottle at them) ? ? "It was an incredible feeling sitting in the theatre. It was really hard not to cry. One of the scenes that they used was a funeral scene. That?s one of our oldest songs. It was written when we were in high school, early high school. It was mind blowing. I think it goes perfectly with the movie. We are just very flattered to be a part of a movie." - Amy about having songs in Daredevil ? ? "The reason it's not in Christian record stores is because it's not a Christian record." - Ben about Fallen being pulled from Christian stores ? ? "I think our success is built on a solid foundation. I think that people like the songs, but then they listen to the songs and like us as a band. Because there's so much in the songs for people to hold on to. And I think that will be the secret of our longetivity." - Amy on Evanescence's success ? ? "I don't completely know how to act around people when I don't know them. It's always kind of been that way. I remember my stage presence used to be really, really bad ... and then the more successful we've gotten, it's sort of just come a lot easier because I don't think that it's totally registered in my mind yet. I think I'm still kind of trippin' about it." - Amy ? ? ? "We make our music the way we want to make it, the way we want to hear it. And if the radio picks up on that then that's great, but it's not made with them in mind." - Amy in response to a comment that their music is "catered" to radio ? ? "The point of this whole record and band is to let people know that they're not alone in dealing with bad feelings or pain or anything that they go through." - Amy about Fallen ? ? "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!'" - Amy about her costume in concert ? ?   "I don't think either of us really fit in that well, and possibly that's what drew us together." - Amy about them starting the band at camp ? "We're actually high on the Christian charts, and I'm like, 'What the f--- are we even doing there?'" - Ben about Fallen ? "Sometimes I pick my nose. There you have it." - Amy ? "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." - Amy ? "Two nights ago, a bra was thrown onstage. At first I thought it was for me, so I'm like, 'Hey,' and put it on my guitar. But then I noticed it said, 'Property of Amy.' Looking at it again, I saw her name, 'Maggie,' next to her number ? which I should give out because I'm a little upset that I didn't get a bra. Amy gets all the groupies." - Ben ? "Some people at the shows are yelling, 'Marry Me!' or whatever. And I'm like, 'Guys, let's just stop it.'" - Amy ? "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." - Amy on the meaning of Going Under ? "I like to use two basic elements for my clothing: rock... you know, metal and chains and stuff ? mixed with fairies and drama and Victorian clothing ? fantasy." - Amy about her wardrobe ? "Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can. I'm a rock star." - Amy ? "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." - Amy about their music ?