Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN! Ani DiFranco More Quotes by Ani DiFranco More Quotes From Ani DiFranco 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. Ani DiFranco defense focus inspiration Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain. Ani DiFranco future pain rain When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you're trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can't go march on Washington. Ani DiFranco march-on-washington giving thinking When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say it' attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it's all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life. Ani DiFranco writing song attitude I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words. Ani DiFranco avoiding silence expression I am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding. Ani DiFranco fabric progress expression What doesn't bend, breaks. Ani DiFranco break insanity Like how could you do nothing, Ani DiFranco eye running hands People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real. Ani DiFranco real order people What bugs me is that you believe what you're saying. What bothers me is that you don't know how you feel. What scares me is that while you're telling me stories, you actually believe that they are real. Ani DiFranco scare real believe Imagine you're a girl, Ani DiFranco girl knowing dirty 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. Ani DiFranco movie stupid long 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. Ani DiFranco weather men boys I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all. Ani DiFranco bedroom wall paint Birth is the epicenter of women's power Ani DiFranco inspirational-pregnancy birth pregnancy Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I've forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn't it just like you to bring me to my knees? Ani DiFranco knees proud fall I was supposed to be cool about this, yeah, I remember - cool was the plan. Tried to keep it all under wraps, but the wraps kept going slack. I keep turning round, I keep coming back. Ani DiFranco yeah remember fall I used to be a superhero; no one could touch me, not even myself. You are like a phone booth I somehow stumbled into, and now look at me - I am just like everybody else. Ani DiFranco superhero phones fall You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this. Ani DiFranco fighting love fall I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now...it mutates the vibe and even the meaning of the same words when you have a different spirit, if the person singing is different. I like that, to be able to sing an emotionally wrought song from a more centered place, or to sing an eager, youthful song from a more experienced place. It kind of colors the songs differently, and it keeps them fresh. Ani DiFranco color writing song
