3 December 2020 Ani DiFranco I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they’re both subcorporate music – I mean, traditionally.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Ani DiFranco I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Ani DiFranco I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Ani DiFranco Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
3 December 2020 Ani DiFranco I’d rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
