Ani DiFranco

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do. ”

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant. ”

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. ”

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.' ”

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. ”

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to 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 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. ”

Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now. ”

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV. ”

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. ”