Amanda Shires

It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.

— Amanda Shires

And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it.

— Amanda Shires

I'm well-read as far as literary fiction, but I wanted to make better decisions about my writing, to use words or phrases…

— Amanda Shires

Instinct is still important, but now I can easily identify problems like cliches and mixed metaphors, and I have a broader palette…

— Amanda Shires

There's a stability in being a side person that can be kind of dangerous if you also want to be an artist…

— Amanda Shires

At about 33 weeks along in my pregnancy, the doctor suggested that I stay pretty close to home and not be touring…

— Amanda Shires

I think I prefer for the listener to decide for themselves what stuff means, because I always hate it when I think…

— Amanda Shires

I consider myself more of a rock 'n' roll fiddler.

— Amanda Shires

I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning.

— Amanda Shires

Sometimes when you're going through life you're not really noticing it.

— Amanda Shires

I was in a plane that lost an engine flying from Dallas to England. It happened over the Newfoundland Sea, and it…

— Amanda Shires

I wasn't getting any work as a songwriter in Texas because I was only known as a fiddle player.

— Amanda Shires

You know when you have a child and then as you get older, your parents start becoming more like your friends and…

— Amanda Shires

I write really slowly, and my lines are really, really terrible all the time. It takes so long for me to get…

— Amanda Shires

I don't really have anything nice to say about pop-country radio.

— Amanda Shires

'Eve's Daughter' - that's like, 'Make way, women are cool.' I feel like it's my responsibility to try and do at least…

— Amanda Shires

Sometimes something opens up in your brain as I'm writing, thinking about the song, and it's like a whirlwind. It all comes…

— Amanda Shires

The cool thing about Americana is that the genre is accepting of all types of music.

— Amanda Shires

People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some…

— Amanda Shires

I can't sing like Aretha Franklin as much as I wish I could. And I don't sing like Etta James and the…

— Amanda Shires

I just write what I write, produce the music I produce and try to give myself a chance to stay true to…

— Amanda Shires

It helped my lyric writing so much studying poetry. I thought I knew what poetry was before I immersed myself in it.…

— Amanda Shires

Violin was my first form of expression - and is still in a lot of ways.

— Amanda Shires

When you name a beast, sometimes it makes it less bestial.

— Amanda Shires

Because the beauty of songs, I think, is if you do it right a lot of people can relate to it in…

— Amanda Shires