Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right. Ani DiFranco holdtoolweapon Change image and share on social
I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial. Ani DiFranco commercialhatemusic Change image and share on social
Music has as many roles as people make it. Ani DiFranco makemusicpeople Change image and share on social
A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. Ani DiFranco badbenigncall share on social
If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same. Ani DiFranco Change image and share on social
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 adulateaudiencecircumstance share on social
It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that. Ani DiFranco concentrateconstantlydefine share on social
Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them. Ani DiFranco administrationbushcrime share on social
I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way. Ani DiFranco closecloselyconnect share on social