Ani DiFranco: Art transforms struggle into something beautiful

“I talk to every person like they’re my friend. If you stand on every stage and talk like you’d talk to your best friend, you might step on toes. That way of interfacing is not always appropriate or successful" American singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco says in an interview with the Guardian about her new autobiography 'No Walls and the Recurring Dream'. She had a hard start when she started her career in the 1990s, but, as she points out, now may be even harder - "Mine was a world where every momentary choice didn’t have to be one you were making in an endless eternity of scrutiny. Good luck to the artists today who are trying to break ground”.