Melissa Etheridge Quotes

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.

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

The night is black, as black as night.

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

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

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

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.

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 taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!

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.

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

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.

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

It's so hard to listen to these trains outside my window, here it comes again. And it's calling me, begging me, follow me down the track. And it moans so dark and low, baby ain't comin' back... It sounds like crying, it sounds like letting go. Breathing and lying, sinking and dying slow. And I watch from my window, touching the cold glass sky. As the train rolls down the track, I say goodbye.

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

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

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

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

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.

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.

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

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

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

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

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

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.

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

I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.

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

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

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

Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong.

Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.

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.

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.

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

Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.

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