Category: Ani DiFranco

“I’d rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.”
-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

“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

“I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.”
-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

“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

“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

“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

“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 seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.”
-Ani DiFranco