Ani Difranco
Ani Difranco
Ani DiFrancois an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, songwriter and businesswoman. She has released more than 20 albums and is widely considered a feminist icon. DiFranco has received positive feedback from critics for much of her career...
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth23 September 1970
CityBuffalo, NY
declining happen lipstick people picture sign statement takes talk wearing
People talk about my image, like I come in two dimensions, like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind, like what I happen to be wearing the day that someone takes my picture is my new statement for all womankind
admit cause certain experience fact personal share stuff talk
Cause to me, it's, there's nothing that's personal and private, it's all universal. There's no experience that I have ever had that's unique. And the fact that there is just certain stuff that we share but don't admit to and don't talk about. You know, what is that about?
education ignorance envy
I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.
sex lying bed
Lying in bed, you know, you don't seem so tall.
social-taboos noses ears
How come I can pick my ears, but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How can you say that's the way it is, that's just the way it goes, why don't you decide fore yourself what you can do?
thinking social-taboos people
I use my dress to wipe up my drink, I care less and less what people think.
bored feelings unanswered-questions
What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?
insanity break
What doesn't bend, breaks.
self occupation self-preservation
Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.
work mind tails
Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.
education brain facts
A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.
summer block office
Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-- And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.
sleep america people
Freedom and democracy, That's the word from Washington every day. Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés, And people are expendable along the way.
inspiration focus defense
My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds my gaze The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase Just a phase.