MuchMusic.com: I gather that there’s a theme of control for you right now, like YOU are in control! That’s obviously affected your album, but how has it affected your day to day life?

Amy: Well, I’m kind of going through this thing now where it’s all about the album, so it doesn’t feel like there’s much of a difference to me in my everyday life. I am the leader. I’m doing tons of work right now. I don’t do all the press by myself, on this little trip I’m the only one who came up because the guys are just chilling and practicing by themselves for a couple of days. But, you know, we make it a team effort. I think that’s an important part of being a leader, including everyone.

MuchMusic.com: There’s a lot of talk about expectations for this album - it’s your sophomore album, you can expect that. But what’s your biggest expectation?

Amy: I feel like my expectations were going to be for the outcome of the music. That’s already done, so I feel completely accomplished! I had tons of huge expectations for myself. I wanted to do things bigger and better and more emotional and more personal and more intimate than anything I’ve ever done. I wanted to do something better than “Fallen”. I don’t think that’s hard. To try to top record sales is stupid and impossible because if you’re trying to be an artist and your only goal is money, then you’re never going to come up with a good piece of art. I was really just concentrating on music and all the things I wanted to try, and all the ways I wanted to branch out and incorporate different sounds into our music and different instruments, and more personal lyrics. To me, I really feel that I’ve accomplished everything I wanted to, and I feel satisfied. What everyone else expects, I don’t know! We’ll see. I’m sure that they can’t possibly expect what’s coming.

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Evanescence will be the musical guests on NBC-TV’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” Monday night (Tuesday morning), October 2 at 12:35 a.m.

As previously reported, Evanescence’s entire new album, “The Open Door”, is available for streaming at AOL Music. Due on Oct. 3, the CD is the band’s first release since the departure of Ben Moody, who helped singer Amy Lee compose all of the songs on their Grammy-winning, six-times-platinum debut album, “Fallen”. But rather than killing the band, Amy says Ben’s departure only made them stronger.

“I think we’ve grown tremendously as musicians,” she says. “I mean, after performing so much live, and… I don’t know, just getting older. I just think it’s a much stronger album. I love ‘Fallen’, but I think this one’s more intimate in some ways. And also just bigger, heavier and more of everything.”

I have updated the Discography page, which now lists ‘Call Me When You’re Sober’ and ‘The Open Door’.

I’ve also updated the Tour page with links to this -> Tickets Now. Through there you can purchase concert tickets for upcoming Evanescence shows.

You can now stream the whole album on AOL -> Evanescence - The Open Door

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