Quotes from Ani DiFranco

I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.

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

Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.

Taken out of context, I must seem so strange

and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back

When I look down, I miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things...

Maybe you don't like your job. Maybe you didn't get enough sleep. Nobody likes their job; nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life. You know there's no escape and there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do than survive.

We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way it goes, better to be dusty than polished, like some store window mannequin, why don't you touch me where i'm rusty, let me stain your hands

Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said.

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. -Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)

i fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change...

When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.

we can't afford to do anyone harm because we owe them our lives each breath is recycled from someone else's lungs our enemies are the very air in disguise you can talk a great philosophy but if you can't be kind to people every day it doesn't mean that much to me it's the little things you do the little things you say it's the love you give along the way

Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!

i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world

We have to be able to criticize what we love, say what we have to say. Cause if you're not trying to make something better then as far as I can tell you are just in the way.

We are made to bleed and scab and heal and bleed again and turn every scar into a joke. We are made to fight and fuck and talk and fight again and sit around and laugh until we choke.

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.