Melissa Etheridge's Quotes

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.

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.

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.

On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely.

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.

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.

There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

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.

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.

We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.

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.

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.

Love is never wrong.

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

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

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

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

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

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

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

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

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

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

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 don't think anyone masters parenthood.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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