• Name: Amy Lynn Lee, named after an old song
• Age: 22
• Birth: Riverside, California on December 13th ‘81’
• Lived: In Riverdale for 11 months and then moved to West Palm Beach Florida where she spent her child hood.
• Siblings: Two sisters and one brother. Carrie 14, Laurie 12 and Robbie 9.
• Family background: Amy grew up in a musical family. She studied piano for nine years and her father taught her the basics of guitar. Her dad, John Lee, was the lead guitarist in the John Lee and Hard Luck band.
• Musical background: Amy had nine years of classical piano lessons. She was involved in school choir from age 12 through high school and attended regional and state competitions.
• First album: California Raisins (no this is not a joke, unfortunately)
• Fear: Sharks
• Dislikes: Wearing makeup
• Most rewarding thing for Amy at her job: touching people “ When I get onstage and there’s people right in front of me at the end of the stage singing along and crying, and feeling the way that I felt when I wrote the lyrics, it’s the most moving thing.”
• Favorite Era: Victorian Era “There were so many diseases back then, but the clothing was so cool.”
• Favorite Music Artists: Stevie Wonder, Nirvana, Janis Joplin, Beth Gibbons of Portishead, Bjork, Carole Kind, Tori Amos
• Favorite Artist: Salvador Dali
• Favorite Holiday: Halloween
• Favorite Movie: The nightmare before X-mass

"I have always been an artist really. I have always felt different, not necessarily because I am so different, no, I don’t really know how to explain it. I had trouble fitting in at school. It was few friends and being in a gang and all that. I went to a private school. There were three different types of gangs, and if you wanted friends you had to be in one of them. Those three groups were the popular and stupid cheerleaders, or you had the nerds, the smart ones and I was always a drama queen. I didn’t fit in any of those, Amy Lee say and get thoughtful again. I couldn’t find anyone else that was like me. A lot of people judged me and looked at me as a freak. " "I moved a lot during my childhood and had trouble getting friends. I never fit in anywhere, and had trouble getting in touch with other people Puberty isn’t exactly the easiest part of your life. And on top of that I was alone all the time. I had my art though. I took drama lessons in school, but art and active was not a priority in our school. All the money went to sports and cheerleading. I fought for new costumes for plays, but everything went to something else. That made me care, and I got really pissed at the whole thing. I didn’t care about anything. I did some things to not get like a total outsider. I dressed as anonomsly as possible, and wanted just to disappear in the crowd. But when I got home I got eccentric and had to get out emotions. That’s when I painted, drew, wrote a lot, and also played dress up."
 

Amy talks about her struggles with her dreams...." I suffered from them terribly from the time I was a small child right up until I was 18. They were beyond frightening and very twisted. The nightmares came in all forms but were usually about death, destruction, twisted crazy people. I finally learned to stand up to them and now I don't have them so much. I am not so insecure and vulnerable anymore."