When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings. Ani DiFranco More Quotes by Ani DiFranco More Quotes From Ani DiFranco My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to the page...that way was kind of intimidating to me, yet intriguing, to try to reflect the rhythms and connotations and emotions that you can deliver, speaking-wise, on a page. Ani DiFranco wise air writing I make such a good statistic, somebody should study me now; somebody's gotta be interested in how I feel, just cause I'm here, and I'm real. Ani DiFranco feels-just causes real a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned Ani DiFranco clarity lessons order and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time. Ani DiFranco lines running trying I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen Ani DiFranco fabric progress offering We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate. Ani DiFranco party strong country Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness. Ani DiFranco weakness honesty kind Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar. Ani DiFranco flirting happy-life looks There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV. If you don't want to do too many drugs, you have to start bodily mutilation. Ani DiFranco drug night america I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger and not to their own fear. Imagine you're a girl just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they prefer you dirty and smiling. Ani DiFranco girl fear dirty These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when I have a moment to myself, I'll sit down with my guitar and open my journal, and start kind of massaging things together, and see if a song takes shape. Or sometimes, I'll just be hanging out with my guitar and come up with a chord progression or a lick, and that'll sort of sit around for a while waiting to marry itself to some words. So it's sort of haphazard and it's like...junk culture. I go around finding shiny objects and I glue them together laughs. Ani DiFranco guitar writing song These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can see those songs I bailed on could have been better, that had those great two verses and then I kind of coasted from there. These days, if a song is giving me trouble, I put it aside and pick it up later, and keep doing that, for a year if I have to, until it takes shape. Ani DiFranco writing song years Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not. Ani DiFranco smile eye thinking It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet. Ani DiFranco sadness shadow regret But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me. Ani DiFranco simple beautiful romantic If you’re not angry, then you’re just stupid, you don’t care. How else can you react when something’s so unfair? Ani DiFranco unfair care stupid I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try. Ani DiFranco smart lucky trying The world is my oyster. Ani DiFranco oysters home world I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me. Ani DiFranco cities new-york thinking Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate. Ani DiFranco turns lines walks
