"They can call me crazy if I fail, cause all the chance that I need, is one in a million. They can call me brilliant if I succeed. Gravity is nothing to me, moving at the speed of sound. I'm just gonna get my feet wet, until I drown."

"I make such a good statistic. Someone should study me now. Somebody's got to be interested in how i feel. Just 'cause I'm here and I'm real."

"You know, taken out of context i must seem so strange."

"The butter melts out of habit. You know, the toast isn't even warm ...and the coffee is just water dressed in brown."

"Beautiful but boring."

"Art is why i get up in the morning, but my definition ends there and it doesn't seem fair, that i'm living for something i can't even define."

"I want my old friends. I want my old face. I want my old mind. Fuck this time and place."

"I am not an angry girl, but it seems like i've got everyone fooled. Every time i say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger and never to their own fear and imagine you're a girl, just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they'd prefer you were dirty and smiling."

"I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No i want to be more than a pretty girl."

"Half of learning how to play is learning what not to play. And she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say. Then she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove. She crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around to know she's not alone."

"then she drinks herself up and out of her kitchen chair and she dances out of time as slow as she can sway for as long as she can say this dance is mine this dance is mine"

"Except all the radios agree with all the tvs and all the magazines agree with all the radios and i keep hearing that same damn song everywhere i go maybe i should put a bucket over my head and a marshmallow in each ear and stumble around for another dumb, numb week waiting for another hum, drum hit song to appear."

"But before you throw those stones at me tell me what's your house made of. And before you'll know what I'm doing wrong, you're going to have to get in line. For the purposes of this song lets just say I'm doing fine. Sure, I'm doing fine."

"they say goldfish got no memory i guess their lives are much like mine the little plastic castle is a surprise every time it's hard to say if they are happy when they don't seem much to mind"

"Don't even bother trying to say something clever, clever is as clever does- no matter what it says."

"how come i can pick my ears but not my nose who made up that rule anyway how can you say that's the way it is that's just the way it goes why don't you decide for yourself what you can do and what you can say"

"how come i can pick my friends but not my enemies what is it about me that offends what is it about me 'cause you know i'm only five foot two and i'm giggly wiggly tell me again, what did i do why are you scared of me i fight with love and i laugh with rage you've gotta live light enough to see the humour and long enough to see some change"

"i think shy is boring i think depressed is too i think pretty is nice but i'd rather see something new all these plastic people got their plastic surgery but we got a big big beautiful we got it for free who you gonna be if you can't be yourself you can't get it from t.v. you can't force it on anybody else"

"you know they come to clear cut they come to strip mine they come for some of my big butt my big brain or just a little time they wanna take me out to dinner think i'm a bitch if i don't go seems like the people who actually like me won't allow me to say no your idea of a conversation is the third degree but i don't really know you and i don't really want to talk about me"

"'cause i'm not going to pretend that i don't pick my nose that's just the way it is, my friends that's just the way it goes this is who i am what i do and what i say if you like it, let it be if you don't, please do the same i fight with love i laugh with rage you gotta live light enough to see the humour and long enough to see some change"

" squint your eyes and look closer i'm not between you and your ambition i am a poster girl with no poster i am thirty-two flavors and then some and i'm beyond your peripheral vision so you might want to turn your head cause someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said"

"everyone's an actor, or an actor's best friend... I wonder what was so wrong to begin with that we should all have to pretend!"

"Yeah, Baby George Bush? He sucks at president."

"i'm really beginning to appreciate snow.. my timing is good, at least! but really, after it snows, and the whole world is covered in that blanket of white that makes everything seem so peaceful, there's this amazing quiet.. and i bet all those people in paradise have never known a quiet like that. and i can imagine them sitting there thinking... damn those beautiful ocean waves slapping up against the pristine beaches keeping me up at night!!" --ani live, portland, me. 3.30.01

"I'm going to use my folk singer powers to shrink the room."- live @ Lowel Mass 2/28/01

"...umm jam-master goat. oh no you gotta play it forward that shit is satanic..."

"I envy you your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss...bliss...bliss"

"I found religion in the greeting card aisle and now i know hallmark was right."

"Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws. These are not my rules."

"I always wanted to be commander in cheif of my One Woman Army!"

" . . . And so now like, now it's so funny like all the Rightous Babes you know, well not all of them, just a couple of them that got their little panties on alittle too tight, they're like all in a twitch. . . . 'cause they're like you know, 'Now you fuckin' wench just writing about love and shit, what happened to your politics, are you just gonna sell out . . . is this a consious move you know from like overly political song writing' . . . la di da. And I'm just like, 'No man, I just got distracted." -Living In Clip

"he looks me up and down like he knows what time it is, like he's got my number like he thinks it's his, he says, "call me miss difranco if there's anything i can do," i said, "it's mr. difranco to you."

"One of the great lies of conservatism is that feminism and femininity are somehow in opposition to each other. Feminism is simply the belief that woman has the right to become herself, just as a man has the right to become himself.All decent people, male and female are feminists.The only people who are not feminists are those who believe that women are inherently inferior or undeserving of the respect and oppurtunity afforded me. Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'"

"there's nothing wrong with love, no matter what flavour it comes in..."

"I had the chance to meet Ralph Nader a coupe of weeks ago. He seemed like a really down to earth level headed guy, which totally disqualifies him for the presidency." Nov.20, 2000. Milwalkee, WI

"so we went to disneyworld and went on the It's A Small World Ride. we decided to make it a little more interesting by passing around an illegal substance. there are cameras all over the place. when we get out of the ride, there are all the disney cops. and officer JOE says, 'we don't wanna hear from you again.' so i said, 'i didn't know we called'." at the patriot center in fairfax on 8 november 2000

"her legs are longer than mine, but mine are stronger than hers." yesss...

Here's an Ani article that we found in Time.

Here is a good place for some more perrrdy Ani pictures.