My songs are just little letters to me.

DiFranco frames songwriting as a form of private correspondence: each song functions like a small, addressed message that preserves a moment of feeling, thought, or self-knowledge. The line suggests an intimate, diaristic relationship to her work—songs are not primarily products or performances, but communications between versions of the self across time. It also implies humility about scale (“just little”) while affirming the cumulative power of many such “letters” to document a life. For listeners, the remark hints at why her catalog can feel confessional: the public hears what began as personal mail, opened and shared through art.