Quotes from Ani DiFranco

I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen

I am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding.

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.

I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.

I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society. It's raw. It's scary. But it gives us a place to work with.

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

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.

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

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

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.

The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.

My songs are just little letters to me.

A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.

Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.

I've got more than one membership to more than one club and I owe my life to the people that I love.

I am watching your chest rise and fall like the tides of my life, and the rest of it all and your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow I am waiting for sleep to offer up the deep with both hands.

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

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.