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Hey guys welcome to our page! We're so excited that you're here. Since you're here we'll let you in on an interview Amy had with Yahoo not too long ago. LAUNCH: On a personal level, how are you adjusting to the surge of ultra-celebrity you're currently experiencing? AMY: Well, I guess it's been like an overnight thing. It's been pretty incredible. But you can also look at how we've been working on this for a really long time: We have been writing this music for, like, seven years, Ben and I. So in a way it's kind of like the hard work paid off well. LAUNCH: Do you think people's expectations of you have changed now that you are successful? AMY: [laughs] Don't get me nervous! I try not to think about a lot of that stuff. I try not to get worried about what other people are gonna think of me; getting nervous about their expectations is sort of pointless. All I can do is be myself, so...I'm just gonna leave it there. LAUNCH: What do you think it is about Evanescence that's intrigued so many people? AMY: Oh, wow. [laughs] What about us has intrigued so many people? I don't know. I hope they can feel that we're being honest, and we're not trying to sell them something. I can't tell what sells records. I have no idea. I've been surprised by so many different things that have happened in the history of this industry. But I just hope people can feel that we're just trying to make music that we love. Like, from the beginning Ben and I said, "I wanna be my favorite band." And we just made music from all genres pulled together, trying to make something that we loved very much--not anything that we thought people would buy, or that we thought people would get into. It's just natural. So, I hope that's why. LAUNCH: Do you find that the role of a woman in rock 'n' roll is limited, compared to a man's role? AMY: Wow, your questions are really interesting. This is hard for me to answer, because it's a great question...OK, I don't feel restricted being a woman in the industry. I don't feel like there's anything I can't do. I'm just really, really proud to be here, and it's weird to me that there aren't a lot more females around me. There's kind of been this void lately, and I think that's a real shame. I hope that we can inspire people--inspire girls--to think that it's possible. It's really weird--I never thought it was strange at all until we were just about to put our record out, and everybody in the industry started freaking out: "It's not gonna work! We're showing it to people, and they think it's crap and they're not gonna play it on alternative radio because it starts out with a girl on a piano. There's no way!" And I'm like, "Why?" I just I didn't get it. It's never bothered me; it's never held me back that I'm a woman. I'm proud to be one. LAUNCH: Does the current band at all resemble what you envisioned when you first put the band together? AMY: It's funny--you definitely grow as you go, and things definitely change as you're writing and as you grow up, after you've been writing for many years. But I remember being 15 writing some of these songs, and wanting them to sound the way they do on our album--and not being able to do it, because we didn't have the strings and the choir. I actually pulled my high school choir out of class and had them come record stuff in the closet of Ben's apartment one day. So the idea was always there, but finally when we recorded Fallen, and I was 20, it was just like, "Wow, it sounds like I wanted it to sound in 1997!" So it's very cool, actually. We sound really a lot like I always wanted to sound, only I think we're a lot better than we were. LAUNCH: Has your success put a strain on old relationships, or within the band? AMY: It's not so much a strain to keep those friendships up, it's more that they just don't exist anymore. I regret to say that I really don't have that many friends. And it's not it's not a huge deal, like I had a million friends anyway. I really didn't. It's not about when we got signed and we got successful, it's about when I started moving around. I have always been a mover. Like, as soon as I graduated high school, I moved to another town with my band. We were working on trying to get signed, and then when we got signed we moved to another town, and we went to another town--we're just always moving. So I really have just lost contact with everybody. I have a few close friends that I stay in touch with that I know are my true friends 'cause they've always been there. But I'm making good friends on the road, like in other bands. I've always hung out with guys; I love men. I mean, obviously I'm surrounded by them all day with my career. I've got some cool friends in other bands, that sort of thing.

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