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I do guest vocals all the time.
Adrenaline really numbs out all pain.
I never had this idea, 'I wanna be a solo artist.'
I didn't have any doubts about joining Arch Enemy.
My parents, along with my brother and sister, are vegetarians.
Some people are really surprised that I can sing different ways.
I'm always, always really health conscious - even more so on tour.
Personally, I would never use sexuality or looks as a selling point.
I feel just as much a part of 'War Eternal' as I do 'Will to Power.'
Is it hard to be vegan? Absolutely not. It would be hard to not be vegan.
I haven't seen too many similarities between Montreal and American cities.
I think 'War Eternal' - if I'm allowed to say it - for me, it's a masterpiece.
Playing with my sister - we always had musical instruments lying around the house.
I never took lessons. And I never aspired to be a singer until I was one in a band.
'Wages Of Sin' was the first metal album I ever bought, and it was love at first listen.
The animal rights cause is something close to my heart and something I truly believe in.
That's one of the reasons I'm vegan. Death terrifies me. I don't want to impose death on anyone else.
I like to write lyrics when I feel it, and because of that, I like to keep a log of lyrics all the time.
I have a lot of people I think are important to me, a lot of different causes I like to talk about also.
I love doing clean singing, which is one of the main things that drives me back to Kamelot all the time.
When I was in high school, I started organizing fundraisers and other events for people like PETA and Greenpeace.
Fighting the ongoing war in your day-to-day life, everybody has their battle going on that nobody else knows about.
We should be pointing out people's accomplishments rather than their looks, but if it can promote our band, why not?
A lot of my musician friends have the same kind of anxiety and panic when faced with crowds of people, and I do, too.
Just because the gender of the vocalist is the same, that doesn't actually tell you anything about the sound of the band.
Women in general have to think about certain things that men don't - like being safe in the street at night or something.
For some reason, people don't want to see a girl onstage. Whether it's a girl or a guy, if you like the music, who cares?
I have a hard time writing happy things. I really just don't find it that interesting for me personally to write about that.
I've done music as a hobby, either in musical theater or just jamming with friends, pretty much for as long as I can remember.
Lzzy Hale could sing me the dictionary, and I would swoon. She is so amazingly talented, and her voice is absolutely delicious.
I work out a lot. I started to work out on the road as much as I can, but I work out a lot at home to keep myself in good shape.
It's pretty clear I am a diehard Chris Cornell fan, so his voice, musicianship, and lyrics have touched me across many different projects.
In general, people that we meet in person are pretty cool people - always very respectful, just happy to be there, happy to enjoy the music.
I think one of the things that makes Arch Enemy so unique is that we're five musicians who are all super self-critical but also super-driven.
We don't follow trends; I don't think we even set trends. We just do our own thing. We just do what we love. That's why Arch Enemy sounds like that.
I am one of the few but very lucky people who grew up in a vegetarian household. So, I was vegetarian since birth along with my mother, sister, and brother.
I agree that it's absurd to call a category of music 'female-fronted metal,' because if you look at Otep or Epica or Arch Enemy, we don't sound anything alike.
It's fun for me, and I love singing Arch Enemy stuff without clean singing, but I think it would be cool to introduce it. It's just a matter of if it feels right.
I don't want to die. I can't wrap my head around the concept of death because I'm totally atheist. There's nothing after life in my head, whether that's right or wrong.
I love 'hearing a person's face' in their music. I've been told by fans that they can tell when I'm smiling or feeling mischievous in my voice - that's a huge compliment.
I've worked as a singer in metal bands for over ten years now, so I've definitely kind of put in my time building that underground family, that underground, loyal fan base.
If any female - or male - does something in order to get 'likes' on their video or to get fans, they're being exploited, and they're actually selling out to a certain extent.
I like musicals a lot. I think probably 'Jesus Christ Superstar' is my favorite. I love Andrew Lloyd Webber for the most part. It's rare that I'll find a musical that I don't like.
Anywhere we go in the States, people know we're from out of town: like, we stick out like sore thumbs. People are like, 'Freaks! Go cut your hair!' and whatever. It's a little weird.
When I hear from fans that they not only like the music but they're also very touched by the lyrics, or they also learned about a specific cause because of me, that's really rewarding.
We never settle for 'This is good enough.' It always has to be amazing because that's the kind of music we'd want to listen to, and that's the kind of music we want to give to other people.
I think one of the reasons that Arch Enemy gels so well as people and musically is because we all share very similar values when it comes to human rights, animal rights... even politics, religion.
I have read and heard so many stories from people all around the world describing how they've found their own reason to believe through Arch Enemy, and that genuinely inspires me and keeps me going.
As a female in metal, I'm going to get ostracized one way or another. So, if I'm going to have people hating me because I'm a female in metal, I might as well get people loving me because I'm a female in metal, too.
Often the 'lead' of a classical song will have something really cool to its melody that - even though it might be a violin or something doing it in the song - I end up wanting to try something like that with my voice.