Ani DiFranco Quotes

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

Although I know it's unfair I reveal myself one mask at a time.

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

I've decided that I'm not going to filter as much of what I post, because what's the point?

I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.

I don't pretend to be perfect. I want people to see me as I am.

It was strange to be naked in front of anybody. It was like that cold water out there in the bay: scary, you didn’t think you could stand it, but then you plunged in and pretty soon you got used to it. There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.

I say everything and I do whatever I want to do. I'm just me. The polished version of me, I suppose, because I have on clothes and makeup. But emotionally, I am very on the surface.

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

Should I marry W.? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name.

No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

You're only as sick as your secrets.

Only a handful of people are honest when they sing. A lot of people sing about very vague things, or they'll sing about someone breaking up with them, but a lot of people don't go too deep into their past and stuff, because they don't want it to be let out. I just do it anyway.

Then he crouches down behind it, motions for Tess and me to sit down, and begins unbuttoning his vest. I blush scarlet and thank every god in the world for the darkness surrounding us. “I’m not cold and I’m not bleeding,” I say to him. “Keep your clothes on.” The boy looks at me. I would’ve expected his bright eyes to look dimmer in the night, but instead they seem to reflect the light coming from the windows above us. He’s amused. “Who said anything about you , sweetheart?

I'm a 'What you see is what I want you to see' kind of girl . . . When I first started, I just wanted to be perfect. I wanted to say I loved bunnies and rainbows and world peace. I realized that the only way to be perfect was to embrace your imperfections.

I chose the name "Padded Room," because, when I'm in the booth, it would be the padded room. When I'm in the booth, I can say a lot of things and speak about a lot of things that normally I wouldn't be able to speak about to a friend or to family or to a crowd. A lot of times, the things that I say, if you had to categorize it, they would probably call me nuts or crazy. So, you add that aspect of "The Padded Room," which would be almost like an insane asylum.