Amanda McBroom

“It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.”

“Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snows, lies the seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose.”

“I have always believed that if you're going to be a singer, you have to be a storyteller.”

“A lyric is a tiny play. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end. It has a character, and it has a point of view.”

“Shipwrecked on a sea of faces, always another town, dreaming of the calm oasis, never seem to slow me down.”

“Some say love, it is a river that drowns the tender reed.”

“Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.”

“I say love, it is a flower, and you, its only seed.”

“It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.”

“And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.”

“When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long, and you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong...”

“I wrote 'The Rose' in about 20 minutes... It was the fastest song I'd ever written. And it was because it was a prayer.”

“My job is to make people feel things. If I can make you laugh, or cry, or think... then I've done my job.”

“For me, the words come first. The melody is the dress that you put on the words.”

“I believe in the power of the song. A good song can change a heart.”

“I was driving down the freeway and the phrase 'some say love, it is a river' just popped into my head.”

“It's the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give.”

“Ghosts of the old reminders, haunt me when I'm all alone. Phantoms of the heart behind us, chill me to the very bone.”