It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.
— Ani DiFranco
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.
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.
My songs are just little letters to me.
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.
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
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.
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.
Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
Taken out of context I must seem so strange.
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
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.
Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.
Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.
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.
I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.
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.
They taught me different was wrong.
