Ani DiFranco Quotes

But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.

I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before.

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.

I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I've forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn't it just like you to bring me to my knees?

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.

I'm aware enough, I guess, of American labor history.

Imagine you're a girl, just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they'd prefer you were dirty and smiling.

Music has as many roles as people make it.

It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.

You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.

If you don't live what you sing about, your mirror is gonna fade.

I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind.

How come I can pick my ears, but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How can you say that's the way it is, that's just the way it goes, why don't you decide fore yourself what you can do?

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.

Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.

Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.

Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized.

I'm an all powerful amazon warrior, not just some sniveling girl.

I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.

and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.

I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change.

i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.

I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind; I want somebody who has a tortured soul ...some of the time

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.

Feminism is not only for women It's something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, as the first step in the right direction. I see feminism as a tool to achieve that balance and peace.

Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now.

I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless.

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

Feel free to listen, feel free to stare.

Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.

When I look around I think this, this is good enough; And I laugh at whatever life brings because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up, I just trip over things.

I still define myself by the places that I've been.

A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?

Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So here's two beers to remember why and three more to forget.

I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style.

Stepped out into the cold, collar high, under the slate gray sky. The air was smoking and the streets were dry, and I wasn't joking when I said goodbye.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

We've got ego's like hairdos.

No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.

The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I'm better off Alone.