The Nightmare Before Christmas Is My Number

The First Real Concert, Other Than Going With My Dad To See Three Dog Night, Was Smashing Pumpkins And Garbage. I Was Fourteen Or Fifteen. I Liked Shirley Manson Because She Reminded Me Of Annie Lennox. They Both Have These Deep, Sexy, Powerful Alto Voices.

My Biggest Dream From The Beginning - Besides Evanescence - Is Scoring Film And Writing Music For Film.

I'm Not The Fastest Writer. I Can't Just Crank Out Ideas That Are Good Enough.

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.

That's Where I Spent Of Lot Of My High-school Years -- In The Closet. It Wasn't Too Cramped, But You Do Get Really Hot.