Top 15 Ani DiFranco Quotes

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

You broke me bodily.
The heart ain't the half of it,
And I'll never learn to laugh at it
In my good natured way.
In fact, I'm laughing less in general,
But I learned a lot at my own funeral.
And I knew you'd be the death of me,
So I guess that's the price I pay.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.