Ani DiFranco Archive

"sometimes it seems like love is just a fancy word for compromise. you gotta read between the years; you gotta write between the lines. you gotta try to understand the grandness of the man behind the petty crimes and let him off easy sometimes." - Ani DiFranco, 'served faithfully'

"I got nothing to hide no more, why disguise what isn't there?" - Ani DiFranco, 'itch'

"maybe you and I will meet again someday. I've been known to come down this road -- call it destiny. and then again, maybe not. I don't know." - Ani DiFranco, 'god's country'

"I guess now we could just get drunk, yeah, that could be our excuse. You could slip from out of nowhere, I could be there to catch your fall. We could laugh at ourselves and the writing that's on the wall." - Ani DiFranco 'Providence'

"And then one day she looked around her and everything up 'til then was showing, and she wondered, 'how did I get here without even knowing where I was going?' And now there's no getting out of this and there's no going back, and it all seems so odd sometimes, and the odds all seemed stacked." - Ani DiFranco 'Going Once'

"'Cause when I look around, I think this, this is good enough and I try to laugh at whatever life brings, 'cause when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff. When I look up, I just trip over things." - Ani DiFranco 'As Is'

"And you came crawling back to say that you wanna make good in the end." - Ani DiFranco 'Gravel'

"how come I can pick my friends, but not my enemies?" - Ani DiFranco, 'pick yer nose'

"I said today I am leaving, in every sense of the word, but I'm in love with your memory already; everything I've seen and heard." - Ani DiFranco, 'rockabye'

"we're in a room without a door and i am sure without a doubt, they're gonna wanna know how we got in here, and they're gonna wanna know how we plan to get out. we better have a good explanation for all the fun that we had 'cause they are coming for us, baby -- they are going to be mad." - Ani DiFranco, 'shameless'