Quotes by 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.
• Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
• 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.
• Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
• 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.
• I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
• I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
• I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.
• 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.
• If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.
• In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
• It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.
• Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.
• 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.
• They taught me different was wrong.
• 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.
• Taken out of context I must seem so strange.
• Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
• 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.
• Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
• Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.
• People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.
• My songs are just little letters to me.
• 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 don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.
• Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
• I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.