Melissa Etheridge Quotations

I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones.

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.

Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.

Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.

Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.

There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.

I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.

When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting.

I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.'

I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life.

The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.

Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there She's got similar features with longer hair And if that's what it takes to get you through Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you

Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' Remember how they taught you; how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down: The legacy stops here.

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

I would say I'm 97% back now, ... It is very hard. ... Chemotherapy is so hard on a person. And I would say I'm fully recovered, yeah.

Our great Constitution challenges us to grow constantly.

Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.

It does to me but I don't know if it will happen with that organization. But that's the future.

I wasn't able to watch television because it hurt. Music, sound hurt. You can smell everything, so anything anyone's eating makes you completely sick,

We were just talking about how hard it is to come here and get all dressed up and know that there is someone sitting in their attic hoping they are not going to die. I called my manager today and I said what can I do. I hate this feeling of wanting to do something.

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair, ... To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

The experience with my children brings me back to earth. I mean, I go out there and I'm looking at (bugs), you know, and I'm looking at snails. And there's the grass, and I'm getting down in it.

I stand before you a totally healthy person, ... Extra.

At the end of the whole thing when it was over, I came home to a bouquet that said 'in sickness and in health,' and she means it, ... And the love and support of someone like that is worth all the money in the world.

the minute I didn't feel it, I stopped.

I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.

I had a lot of self-loathing, ... I've been self-sustained since I was 11. I've always been the one making the money, and to be flat on my back and ... so vulnerable and then be completely loved. To have my wife be there, 110% supportive. To have my children say, 'It's OK, Mom.' To have the people that I work for say, 'It's OK.' To have my fans go, 'It's all right.' It's like, what was I afraid of? I'm going to get healthy now, and I'm not going to carry that baggage anymore.

I definitely feel we're moving forward, ... There's a lot more understanding...there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.

Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.

I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.'

My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.

People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long.

I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do.

Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health.

What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see.

The only thing that stays the same is change.

I do believe in true bisexuality. We all have the capacity. [My partner] Julie is much more bisexual than I am. The more the world understands their bisexuality the better we'll be. I'm attracted to souls. I can be attracted to both.

This is the only naked man that will ever be in my bedroom.

I wanted to be out so I could relax and be me.

It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been.

I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight

I think I'd like to be inspirational to anyone who has a dream, anyone who wants to make more of their life than maybe what is set out in front of them. And you can!

I hope that you know in your heart how you feel about things, and you don't let the people that live on fear and hate govern the way you live.

I was constantly around all those religious images and to me, angels exist. I feel we were definitely guided and helped and I'm always referring to them in my work.

Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it's serious, but it's not the end-all.

I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter - oh my God, shoot me.

Somebody bring me some water/can’t you see I’m burning alive.

I look forward to exercising my American civil liberties and getting fully, completely and legally married this year to my true love of over three years, Linda Wallem,

What's happening right now, this month, I check in and go, 'Hey. You are at the top of a wave right now. Look around and enjoy it because it's not going to stay,' ... The wave goes away. It does not dictate how good I am or my worth. It's just the way it happens.

I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.

When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body.

In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side.

I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am.

I have days when I say, 'I'm going to have five chocolate chip cookies today.' I'll have a salad every day but every week I have a cheat day.

I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.

I don't think anyone masters parenthood.

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.

I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true.

I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.

Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.

My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

I think the best way to be an activist is to live your life well and be honest. It means being out. If you are not comfortable marching, you can make a big difference just by working side by side with someone who actually knows you're gay and a fine human being.

Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive.

I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby.

Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.

I have that gene mutation too and it’s not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn’t call it the brave choice. I actually think it’s the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer. My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It’s the stress that will turn that gene on or not.

I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.

My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It's the stress that will turn that gene on or not.

The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.

I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.

The night is black, as black as night.

Don't let people who live in fear and hate govern how you live.

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'

To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.