Top 100 Melissa Etheridge Quotes
#1. I have a lot of love and respect for Melissa Etheridge. I love Joe Cocker, Ray LaMontagne, Feist.
Crystal Bowersox
#2. When I came out, I said, 'I'm going to be a proud gay artist.' I'm not going to be Melissa Etheridge. But she's a goddess!
Mary Lambert
#3. 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.
Melissa Etheridge
#4. 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.
Melissa Etheridge
#6. 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.
Melissa Etheridge
#7. 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.
Melissa Etheridge
#8. I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.
Melissa Etheridge
#10. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#13. I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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.
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#16. Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.
Melissa Etheridge
#17. 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.
Melissa Etheridge
#18. I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.
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#19. 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.
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#20. My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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.
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#25. All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.
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#27. 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.
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#28. You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.
Melissa Etheridge
#29. Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.
Melissa Etheridge
#30. It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.
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#31. I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!
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#33. I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.
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#35. 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.
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#37. I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.
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#38. 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.
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#39. 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.
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#41. What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.
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#42. I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter - oh my God, shoot me.
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#44. 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.
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#45. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. 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.
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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,
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#51. 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.'
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#52. The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.
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#54. 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
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#55. Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.
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#56. Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive.
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#57. Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar - Precious pain. Empty and cold but it keeps me alive. I gave it my soul so that I could survive - keeping me safe in these chains.
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#61. 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.
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#62. 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.
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#64. I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.
Melissa Etheridge
#65. 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.
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#66. Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.
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#67. Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.
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#68. I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true.
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#69. 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.'
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#70. 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.'
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#71. I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones.
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#72. I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
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#73. 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.
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#75. 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.
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#76. 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.
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#77. 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.
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#78. 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!
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#80. 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.
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#81. My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.
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#83. 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.
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#84. 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.
Melissa Etheridge
#85. 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.
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#87. The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.
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#89. I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.
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#92. 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.
Melissa Etheridge
#93. Don't let people who live in fear and hate govern how you live.
Melissa Etheridge
#94. 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.
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#95. The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.
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#98. I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.'
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#100. I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car. I'm only lonely after dark. I'm only lonely when I watch my TV. I'm only lonely occasionally.
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