"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
"Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV." - 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." - Ani Difranco
"I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me." - Ani Difranco
"I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world." - Ani Difranco
"I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive." - Ani Difranco
"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." - Ani Difranco
"I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all." - Ani Difranco
"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." - Ani Difranco
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." - 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." - Ani Difranco
"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." - Ani Difranco
"My songs are just little letters to me." - Ani Difranco
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." - Ani Difranco
"Taken out of context I must seem so strange." - Ani Difranco
"Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't." - Ani Difranco
"They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed." - Ani Difranco
"They taught me different was wrong." - Ani Difranco
"We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate." - Ani Difranco
"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." - Ani Difranco