Melissa Etheridge Quotes

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

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

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

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.

Love is never wrong.