Ben Moody
Overview
 
Benjamin Robert Moody is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor. He is best known as co-founder, lead guitarist, and songwriter of Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

-winning rock band Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording private albums, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on Wind-up Records in 2003. Fallen sold more than 17 million copies worldwide...

 from 1995 to October 2003. Since leaving Evanescence, Moody has collaborated with an array of performers vocally, instrumentally, and as a writer. He is now a member of We Are the Fallen
We Are the Fallen
We Are the Fallen is an American gothic metal band consisting of former American Idol contestant Carly Smithson, Marty O'Brien and former Evanescence members Ben Moody, John LeCompt, and Rocky Gray. The band's name is an allusion to Evanescence's 2003 album, Fallen, which has resulted in criticism...

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Moody met Amy Lee
Amy Lee
Amy Lynn Hartzler , best known as Amy Lee, is an American singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist. She is co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Evanescence. She cites influences ranging from classical musicians such as Mozart to modern artists Björk, Tori Amos, Danny Elfman and...

 in 1994 while at a youth camp and the two eventually became friends.
Quotations

"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."

"I used to do the rap [on Bring_Me_To_Life|Bring Me To Life], but people could not handle my flow."

"We'll just drink and go on."

On dealing with nerves about The Tonight Show|The Tonight Show with Jay Leno where Evanescence|Evanescence was to perform Bring_Me_To_Life|Bring Me To Life.

"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."

about Amy Lee|Amy Lee.

"We have faith in the people who support us. If they really like us, they're going to want to be cool enough to buy our music, and realize that if they don't, the record label gets our first-born child."

"We're actually high on the Christian charts, and I'm like, 'What the f are we even doing there?'"

About Fallen.

"I don't even have a jeep, let alone a bomb-proof jeep."

"That's the most rock-and-roll story in the world. No one can top it."

On how he and Amy met in a youth camp.

"Something tells me a bomb would pretty much take our bus out."

 
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