Quotes from Ani DiFranco

When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you're trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can't go march on Washington.

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.

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.

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.

In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

I'm the color me happy girl, Miss live and let live. And when they're out for blood, I always give.

Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.

Maybe we are both good people who've done some bad things.

Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.

I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless.

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.

My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

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.

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.