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Quotes by Ani Difranco

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
– Ani Difranco
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
– Ani Difranco
God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.
– Ani Difranco
I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.
– Ani Difranco
I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.
– Ani Difranco
I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.
– Ani Difranco
I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.
– Ani Difranco
I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.
– Ani Difranco
If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.
– Ani Difranco
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
– Ani Difranco
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
– Ani Difranco
My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.
– Ani Difranco
My songs are just little letters to me.
– Ani Difranco
Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.
– Ani Difranco
Taken out of context I must seem so strange.
– Ani Difranco
Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.
– Ani Difranco
They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.
– Ani Difranco
They taught me different was wrong.
– Ani Difranco
We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate.
– Ani Difranco
We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
– Ani Difranco
Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.
– Ani Difranco
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
– Ani Difranco
Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
– Ani Difranco
Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'
– Ani Difranco
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.
– Ani Difranco
Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
– Ani Difranco
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
– Ani Difranco
I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.
– Ani Difranco
I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.
– Ani Difranco
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
– Ani Difranco
I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
– Ani Difranco
I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.
– Ani Difranco
I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.
– Ani Difranco
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
– Ani Difranco
I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.
– Ani Difranco
I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.
– Ani Difranco
A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.
– Ani Difranco