Ani DiFranco Quotes

I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

I am very into making up my own rules.

I don't care what's legal and what's not. I'm going to play the way I play.

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

I like being unconventional.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

When we got with George, he didn't care what was happening. He liked how crazy we were looking and dressing. I kinda liked being with George more so at the time, because George let us do what we wanted to do. But I needed both lessons.