Ani Difranco Trying Quotations

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.

and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.

...I try to laugh at whatever life brings...

I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.