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
people relax ifs
If more people were screamin', I could relax.
inspirational girl joy
i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world
watches
Smile pretty and watch your back
thinking culture youth
All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.
stupid long stories
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.
boys men self
It don't take a weather man to look around and see the weather, Jeb said he'd deliver Florida folks and boy did he ever, and we hold these truths to be self evident number one George W Bush is not president. Number two America isn't a true democracy. And number three the media is not fooling me.
wall bedroom paint
I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.
mistake empowering boss
It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.
hate writing men
I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.
father kids thinking
I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have now. You know, thanks to, not just my kid, but her father before her. You know, I have a kind of a grounding through them that I really relish, and I think is also good for my work, you know.
song littles letters
My songs are just little letters to me.
song hero writing
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.
inspirational motivational anger
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
long gone whole-life
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.