Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.
Melissa Etheridge
Love is never wrong.
I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
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.
I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.
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'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones.
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.
Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.
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'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.
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.'
Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.
Our great Constitution challenges us to grow constantly.
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.
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 have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.
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.
My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
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.
My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby.
I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything.
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.
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 think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.
I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.
All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.
Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health.
I stand before you a totally healthy person.
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.
Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.
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.
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.
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.
I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.
Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.
Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.
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.
I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.
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.
My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.
I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true.
I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am.
I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do.
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 believed in Obama for social issues. I believe he brought our nation together and healed our racial divide. Martin Luther King's dream came true when he was elected. That's huge.
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.
Chemotherapy tests your sanity.
Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.
