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
All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it’s part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general. – 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
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. – Ani DiFranco
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 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 searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn’t do it! – 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
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 see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they’re both subcorporate music – I mean, traditionally. – 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 did a lot of work with myself over the course of being pregnant and the first few months of being pregnant. It’s nice, the pace of being pregnant; it gives you a long time to not just germinate a baby but germinate the mother that you’re gonna be. – Ani DiFranco
These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They’re beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it’s just a lush sound. – Ani DiFranco
Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it’s only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and – you know, for instance, my self-loathing. – Ani DiFranco
I don’t know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven’t met any, and I’m kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records. – Ani DiFranco
A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don’t want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous ‘girl power’ sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it’s a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. – Ani DiFranco