Ani DiFranco

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

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

The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

My style is Edie Sedgwick meets Grace Jones, or Audrey Hepburn meets Salt 'n' Pepa. Strong and feisty but still classic.