My music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too hard and emoting a little too much for the sort of introspective, respectful, sort-of folk genre thing. I'm really into punk and folk as music that comes out of communities and is very genuine and very immediate and not commercial.
Ani DiFrancoYou're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.
Ani DiFrancoI am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.
Ani DiFrancoSome people's minds we're not going to change. But if we can't, we need to bring more positive voices into the discussion.
Ani DiFrancoYou 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