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. -Ani DiFranco Peace
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant. -Ani DiFranco Anger
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. -Ani DiFranco Beauty
I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No. -Ani DiFranco Anger
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. -Ani DiFranco Government
When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say it' attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it's all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life. -Ani DiFranco Courage
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. -Ani DiFranco Famous
When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say it' attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it's all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life. -Ani DiFranco Attitude
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. -Ani DiFranco Poetry
Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance. -Ani DiFranco Society
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap. -Ani DiFranco Strength
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.' -Ani DiFranco Relationship
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society. -Ani DiFranco Society
Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance. -Ani DiFranco Peace
Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. -Ani DiFranco Respect
I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between. -Ani DiFranco Death
